In a speech today, John McCain told the audience: “Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners.” Here is a 13 second YouTube clip from the speech. I thought McCain had been in politics long enough to know not to notify people that he was nullifying all their rights […]
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Freedom is Still the Preeminent Issue
The Foundation for Economic Education posted online my piece from the current issue of their Freeman magazine responding to David Brooks’s call to devalue freedom in American poiltics. Freedom Is Not the Issue? It Just Ain’t So! The Freeman September 2008 By James Bovard The Friends of Leviathan are once again encouraging people to forget […]
Bush’s Forgotten Iraqi Sovereignty Sham
The Future of Freedom Foundation just posted online my article from the July issue of Freedom Daily on Bush’s sovereignty shenanigans on Iraq. It continues to amaze me how easily Bush and team got away with the Empire-State-Building-sized farces regarding Iraq. Unfortunately, “Bush re-subjugated Americans by claiming to have liberated Iraqis.” ***** The Forgotten Iraqi-Sovereignty […]
McCain’s Great Betrayal of Fellow POWs
In last night’s debate, McCain again strutted out the fact of his POW status during the Vietnam war. A servile media has long allowed this to be the primary part of McCain’s halo. But instead, it should raise questions that go to the heart of McCain’s willingness to betray his fellow soldiers and countrymen in […]
Intro chapter from Feeling Your Pain (2000)
Here is the introduction chapter of Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years (St. Martin’s/Palgrave, 2000). This was my parting bouquet to the Clinton White House. The book went to three printings within the first month of its release but slowed down afterwards. (It did not contain any […]
Intro chapter to ATTENTION DEFICIT DEMOCRACY (2006)
Here’s the introduction from Attention Deficit Democracy (2006). This book may have struck more of a nerve with reviewers et al. if it had come out a year later. It was considered too cynical by many folks back in ’06. Rather ironic, given subsequent American history…. For instance, Bush’s television address last night epitomized how […]
The Highway Robber State
The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States – governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from marauding bands of politicians. (from Freedom in Chains, 1999) If you voted in the congressional elections two years ago, were you ceding the right to the winners to give @ a […]
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