The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my Freedom Article on how the Bush administration and its media allies buried Abu Ghraib in 2004. This episode teaches that no one should underestimate the role of lying and blustering in American politics. Regardless of smoking gun photos and smoking gun memos (including the first Yoo […]
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Dictatorship of Lawyers – or, Me and Law School
The Foundation for Economic Education reposted online a 2001 article of mine entitled “Dictatorship of Lawyers.” The piece spurred some incisive comments on FEE’s website: Comment by Bill on 10 March 2009: Ah for the rantings of another who couldn’t get into Law School; Neither could G. W. (W Gump) Bush. You can go to […]
Ragging on Obama’s “Magic Spending Wand”
Here’s a podcast of an interview I did at CPAC last Friday with Victoria Jones of the Talk Radio News Service. Damn outrage, if you ask me.
Obama’s Great Medical Records Roundup
The American Conservative just posted my attack on Obama’s plan to digitize and centralize everyone’s medical records. Ah, the joys of positive thinking about Leviathan…. HEALTH OF THE STATE March 9, 2009 American Conservative by James Bovard ** The President’s Plan for Your Medical Records The computerization of personal healthcare records is one of the […]
Scenes from CPAC 2009
The Conservative Political Action Conference in DC wrapped up today. I tromped down there Friday and got a few photos. There were heaps of books on Sarah Palin and several organizations touting her political future. Joe the Plumber was there, along with lots of people who retain faith in all the nation’s recent wars and […]
Epigrams from Feeling Your Pain (2000)
The following lines are from Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years (St. Martin’s/Palgrave, 2000): Those who forget past boondoggles will be perpetually taxed for new boondoggles. The issue is not how much a politician cares but how much power he seeks. Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial […]
Sarah Palin Lifesize Cutout & Frenzied College Republican Guys
That was the opening theme of the interview today on the Brian Wilson show. Podcast is available here. I don’t know if the Lysol references will register with people below a certain age. Somebody should do a study of the collateral sanitary benefits of VCRs etc.
Boris Bathwait
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Donald Dalton Jr
Pure Evil through and through!!!
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Jim Bovard
The former #1 radio DJ in NYC has bad news for Yon
Brian Wilson
CAPTCHA snipped the lead:
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