Alan Bock, a great freedom writer, went into a hospice yesterday after a long fight with cancer. Alan has a jovial good nature that is rare in this biz. He can be a hardliner without being abrasive or bitter. In the waning days of the last century (12/27/2000), shortly after the Bush legal team had […]
Archive | May, 2011
MP3 / Podcast of My Interview with Brian Wilson on Assassination Nation
WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rollicking chat today on that Assassination Nation article. Click on the link below to listen to or download the MP3: brian-wilson-5-17-11-assassination-nation-0555532d81
Obama’s Unlimited Right to Kill?
from today’s Christian Science Monitor – The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com Assasination nation: Are there any limits on President Obama’s license to kill? As part of its war against violent extremism, the Obama administration now claims a right to kill Americans without a trial, without notice, and without any chance for targets to legally […]
Simon Winder’s Excellent “Germania” Now In Paperback
I blogged a year ago the new book from Simon Winder, who edited Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty back in ’93-94. Germania received rave reviews from the Wall Street Journal, the Denver Post, and other American papers (and even more rave reviews in Simon’s UK). Justifiably – because Germania is an affectionate, amusing, […]
Latest Pro-War Power Grab
I was interviewed this morning (pre-coffee, unfortunately) by Press TV on a provision in a House bill that could make it even easier for presidents to start new war. Here’s their summary of the interview: ++++ The House Armed Services Committee has expanded the Bush-era “war on terror” bill, with amendments that would allow any […]
King of Weasels Enters Prez Race
No matter what I could write about Newt Gingrich, it would not be snarky enough. The Washington Post notes today: “Gingrich is an idea-spewing machine, unlike anyone else in the Republican Party. But does America want a one-man think tank , particularly one with his history, as its president?” The Post was right about the […]
Franklin Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” Fraud
From the February issue of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily – Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” Fraud by James Bovard President Obama has succeeded in seizing new power over health care and other swaths of American lives in part because previous presidents muddied Americans’ understanding of freedom. Most of the past century’s debates over the […]
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