Author Archive | Jim

On KMOX St Louis Radio today (4/2) at 3:20 PM Eastern

I am scheduled for a @ 15 minute interview on the Mike Reardon show on St. Louis’s KMOX today at 3:20 pm Eastern time. AmeriCorps and national service will be the topics. KMOX is at AM 1120 on the dial. Their signal reaches much of Missouri and Illinois, and maybe even sheds a ray of […]

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Podcast of Today’s Lou Dobbs interview now online.

The podcast of the interview with Lou Dobbs today is online here. It is Hour Two of the April 1, 2009 show. I was on for @ 8 minutes starting about 19 minutes into the hour. We had a good ol’ time, though AmeriCorps members probably didn’t enjoy the show.

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On the Scott Horton Show Today (4/1) at 3:30 pm Eastern

Scott Horton and I will be talking about AmeriCorps, Mandatory Service, and other durn outrages today on Antiwar.com radio. You can listen live here. I will post the podcast of the interview here once it is available in the next day or two. I will be curious to see if Scott has gone mellow since […]

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Obama’s Mandatory Service Madness & AmeriCorps

The American Conservative posted online today my tribute to AmeriCorps and the Obama adminstration’s huckstering for mandatory service for all young Americans. ****************************************************** NATIONAL DISSERVICE American Conservative President Obama’s feel-good draft By James Bovard On March 18, the House of Representatives voted 321-105 to pass the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, and the Senate […]

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Washington Post Shills for Terrorists

Not all terrorists are equally damndable, apparently. The Washington Post has an article today on the Iraqi government’s plan to shut down the camp of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK.  This is a violent Marxist organization that was designated by the State Department as terrorists in 1997 because of their long record of killing civilians […]

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Only Terrorists Distrust Government Surveillance

The London Police department is launching a new ad campaign to keep people frightened and submissive. The campaign includes a bizarre poster which encourages people to view as a terrorist suspect anyone who looks closely at government surveillance cameras. Here is the link to the poster. sheet_road_cctv [[I could not figure out how to get […]

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