Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is a four-star sleazeball. But the feds had their chance to put him away and they failed to convince a jury on all charges except lying to the FBI. This is one of the “crimes” that best illustrates the mirage of the Rule of Law in the U.S. FBI agents […]
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James J. Kilpatrick, RIP- the Conservative Literary Path Not Taken….
[updated at the bottom]James J. Kilpatrick passed away yesterday at the age of 89. In his prime, and in his top notch writing, he was one of the best conservative stylists of the late 20th century. He gracefully combined earthiness and erudition to connect with Americans far and wide. When William F. Buckley passed away […]
A Web-Only Solution for Federal Agencies?
Today’s Dilbert should cheer up American newspaper executives. Is there any way to also get most federal agencies to go “web-only”?
How We Brought Freedom & Prosperity to Afghanistan
posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation, from the May issue of Freedom Daily – BRINGING FREEDOM & PROSPERITY TO AFGHANISTAN by James Bovard The Obama administration is seeking to rechristen the Afghan debacle it inherited from the Bush administration. Obama’s efforts to legitimize the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan simply ignore the previous […]
Government Lies Make Leaks Explosive
The Pentagon is caterwauling that the next round of WikiLeaks’ disclosures of US government documents will be even more damaging than the last round. It is always touching to see the world’s most powerful military machine portray itself as a “pitiful, helpless giant” (the phrase Nixon used in his speech announcing his illegal invasion of […]
My 2 Cents on WikiLeaks, the FBI, and Assorted Hokum – Antiwar.com Transcript
The good folks at Antiwar.com Radio added a transcript to the MP3 of last week’s interview. My comments on the Obama administration’s ploy to increase FBI surveillance power are excerpted here at the top. (The full text is below. My Kelly Girl past is now no longer secret). Bovard: National Security letters have already been […]
New U.S. Government Motto: Controlling Us to Secure Us
“If you don’t have control of the population, you can’t secure the population,” according to Brig. Gen. Frederick Hodges, director of operations for the NATO regional command in southern Afghanistan. The front-page Washington Post piece with the above quote deals with Kandahar. But it is also the motto for the U.S. government’s approach to the […]
Ricardo2000
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956):
“Nobody ever went
R R Schoettker
The utter impotent uselessness of the US congress
Texas Dan
If Waco didn't wake you up, nothing would/wil