Author Archive | Jim

The Washington Post yesterday terminated the “White House Watch” column written by Dan Froomkin. Froomkin did far better and more courageous coverage of the torture scandal than did any other Post columnist or editorial writer. (Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles also did magnificent work on this score). Froomkin was off to a strong start on […]

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a twitter message yesterday declaring that “Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.” Gracious – politicians face a few procedural hurdles and then claim that they suffered the equivalent of having their heads busted by goons with […]

I will be on the Brian Wilson radio show today from @ 5:05 pm to 5:30. We will have a good ol’ time ragging on government surveillance and other damn outrages. Listen Live here. (He is on Toledo’s WSPD – 1370 on the AM dial). **** UPDATE: The podcast of the interview is now available […]

This would have been author and freedom fighter Harry Browne’s 76th birthday. Harry (who passed away in 2006) did great work for decades and he helped awake and inspire many people to the value of freedom and the perils of political saviors. His work on surviving economic nosedives is more relevant now than it has […]

Murilo Leme kindly translated my piece on the Obama torture coverup into Portuguese. I am told that sarcasm works better in Portuguese, so the humor may work better in the translation than the original. XXXXX O Mais Recente Cambalacho de Encobrimento da Tortura por James Bovard, 10 de junho de 2009 A administração Obama parece […]