The following riff is part of an American Conservative forum on Obama’s speech. ****** The State of the Union address has long since become “hip boot” time. Shortly after the speech finished, the CNN webpage showed a large photo of Obama giving the speech along with a brief outtake: “CNN BREAKING NEWS: ‘What Comes of […]
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Thoughts on Obama’s State of the Union Speech?
The American Conservative is doing a symposium on reactions to Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. I will add my two cents late tonight or early tomorrow. I’d be curious to know what others expect from the speech – or what they think of the actual spiel. This would be a terrible night to […]
My Office Motto
[from the new issue of the New Yorker] Hell, if my office looked like a mausoleum like this one does, I’d be a negative thinker, too. Geez, did this guy have a zombie design his office? There are no cigar butts, no pair of pliers to adjust the chair, no stack of empty Remington ammo […]
Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy
From January 2011, my American Conservative review of Derek Leebaert’s Magic and Mayhem. Worst and Brightest Review of Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan, Derek Leebaert, Simon & Schuster, 336 pages By James Bovard In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign-policy experts have become Washington’s leading […]
JFK+50: Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy
I received a copy of the March issue of the American Conservative in the mail today. Here are some brief outtakes from a book review (totaling @ 2000 words) I wrote in that issue on the general theme of Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy : *In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign policy experts […]
Good Government Guns II : My Treason
The satire I reposted yesterday was spurred by this article I wrote for American Spectator. It’s always satisfying when a piece spurs a Brooklyn philosophy professor to urge that I be prosecuted for treason……[thanks to WRSA for that photo….] The American Spectator June, 2000 HEADLINE: Good Government Guns Private owners will be handed semiautomatic Play-Doh. […]
Good Government Guns? Time to Disarm G-Men?
After listening to the media chatter about the evil of private guns for the past week, I couldn’t resist reposting this satire published by the Los Angeles Times in the wake of Janet Reno’s raid to nab Elian Gonzalez. The piece generated some very hostile letters to the editor, reprinted below. Los Angeles Times May […]
Jim
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“Compelling TSA to cease plundering travelers…