from the June issue of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily magazine – Federal Make-Work Jobs Betray Teenagers by James Bovard Politicians now pretend that government spending can solve any and all ills. Sloshing out federal funds for local summer job programs exemplifies this delusion. Uncle Sam first began bank-rolling summer jobs for urban […]
Archive | September, 2010
9/11 Commission Report Burnt on 9/11
The 9/11 Commission was one of the biggest frauds of a fraudulent decade. Here’s an excellent list of sources from “Washington’s Blog” on why the Commission’s report was a scam. (H/t Tom Blanton) Here’s a piece I did a few years ago detailing some of the charades of that farce of an “independent” commission. (Simply […]
The True 9/11 Legacy: USA as Valhalla for Torturers and Government Secrecy
The Ninth Circuit court of federal appeals embraced the Obama and Bush administration’s spurious arguments that Americans cannot be permitted to know the details of Bush-era torture. But the court, in one of the most optimistic moments in recent judicial history, declared that its decision “does not preclude the government from honoring the fundamental principles […]
9/11 “Government Blowback Day” Brochure
Larry Ludlow and his cohorts at San Diego Complete Liberty have put together an excellent brochure for their protest at the USS Midway in San Diego on Saturday. (Details available here). The brochure is available in PDF. Unfortunately, I am not savvy enough to figure out how to put a PDF file into a WordPress […]
Washington Post: Pervasive Israeli Spying in the U.S.
Jeff Stein, the ace reporter who writes the SpyTalk blog for the Washington Post, has an excellent post on the profusion of Israeli spying operations in the U.S. Stein notes: Israel
Helping Afghans Drown
If only Toles had written the word DEMOCRACY onto the anvil, the cartoon would be perfect. (from today’s Washington Post)
Government Online Surveillance and Your Bad Attitude
This great Dilbert cartoon perfectly captures how surveillance breeds distrust. The feds are spying on us left and right, and yet politicians whine that we don’t trust the government. At least not everyone’s a damn fool on that regard. (No – this isn’t the cue to recite the Pledge of Allegiance….)
Jim Bovard
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Ron Redrift
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