Author Archive | Jim

The Institute for Humane Studies’ LibertyGuide website reviewed Attention Deficit Democracy. Samuel DeConio, who is finishing a doctorate in political science, covered many of the book’s subjects in his article.   I appreciate the time and effort he took to read and review A.D.D.  His review is very thorough on several aspects of the book that […]

Scott Horton of Antiwar.com kindly spent a heap of hours last night tracking down a rebroadcast of the Neal Boortz interview.  Scott caught & copied the gig and posted it online here. If you haven’t checked out Scott’s Stress blog recently, give it a shot.  He is taping interviews with many writers, antiwar activists, and […]

Neal Boortz kindly had me on his talk show this morning.  He had generous words for Lost Rights (1994) and gave a good push to the new paperback edition of Attention Deficit Democracy.   The interview started around 10:30 AM Eastern time.  I’m not sure when that would pop up in the total time of his […]

The New York Times Magazine has a good piece today on how the Bush team has boarhawged Iranian democratic reformers. It doesn’t matter that Bush’s intervention has worked out disastrously for Iranians working on the side of curbing dictatorship. All that matters is that the Iranian government response to U.S. intervention creates new pretexts for […]

I will be on the Peter B. Collins syndicated radio show Friday (6/22)  from 6 pm to 7 pm Eastern time.  (Lawhobbit, that would be 3 pm Pacific time).  Peter had me on his show when the Bush Betrayal came out and we had a rowdy good time.  I expect there will be some fun […]

The House of Representatives has been whipping up war fever this week – helping the Bush team create pretexts for nuking Iran. Bush has as much right to kill Iranians as I have to kill my neighbor’s dogs – i.e, not a whiff.  If Bush does attack Iran, the carnage could make the bombing of […]