From today’s Counterpunch – Assassination Bloodlust Idolizing Absolute Power by JAMES BOVARD The Christian Science Monitor published a piece I wrote last month wrote opposing allowing the U.S. government to kill Americans without a warrant, trial, or any judicial niceties. The article, “Assassination Nation: Are there any limits on President Obama’s license to kill?,” spurred […]
Archive | June, 2011
MP3 of Today’s WGN Interview on Food Stamp Article
WGN’s Cisco Cotto and I had a rattlin’ good chat about that WSJ food stamp article this morning on Chicago radio. You can hear the show by clicking (or downloading) on the following link: wls-cisco-cotto-june24jamesbovard
Wall Street Journal: Food Stamps for Millionaires
Wall Street Journal June 23, 2011 The Food-Stamp Crime Wave By JAMES BOVARD Millionaires are now legally entitled to collect food stamps as long as they have little or no monthly income. Thirty-five states have abolished asset tests for most food-stamp recipients. These and similar “paperwork reduction” reforms advocated by the United States Department of […]
Fear-mongering and Servitude
from the July-August issue of the Freeman – Fear-Mongering and Servitude by James Bovard In his 1776 essay, “Thoughts on Government,” John Adams observed, “Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will […]
Bush, Torture, and the Rule of Law
from the March issue of Freedom Daily…. Bush, Torture, and the Rule of Law by James Bovard Last November, George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, hit the streets. And Americans could see firsthand the former president bragging about ordering torture. Bush wrote that when he was requested to approve the CIA’s waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh […]
“Bitter, Cantankerous, and Too Lazy to Shave”
My Wall Street Journal tribute to the highway department is spurring some incisive comments. I will revise my Blurb List later tonight. William Gomes, commented posted at WSJ: The real failure of Mr Bovard’s summer job was, it seems, making him into the bitter and cantankerous individual he is today…. I cannot imagine his colleagues […]
Wall Street Journal: My Summer Road to Perdition
Here’s a pleasant jaunt down memory lane…. part of a project I’ve been whittlin’ on for awhile. WALL STREET JOURNAL .My Summer Road to Perdition What did I learn as a young man laboring for the Virginia Highway Department? How to work slowly to slipshod standards. By JAMES BOVARD Mayors, governors and congressmen are busily […]
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