The Future of Freedom Foundation will hold their second annual foreign policy/civil liberties conference next week in Reston, Va. The conference runs from June 6 to June 8. The $495 fee cover all meals and 20 speakers. I will be speaking on Friday around 1:30 on “Bush’s War on Civil Liberties.” Tricky to find enough […]
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No Justice on Memorial Day
Here is a great Washington Post photo of Bush strutting at the White House as he receives visitors from the Rolling Thunder veterans motorcycle group. It is obscene how the same politicians who send Americans to die in unnecessary wars are treated like heroes on Memorial Day. One would hope that this day, above all others, would be […]
The Democratic-Peace Fraud
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online my piece from the March 2008 Freedom Daily on why democracy is no cure for war. Here’s my 2 cents on the topic – The Democratic-Peace Fraud by James Bovard The doctrine of “democratic peace” now provides vital camouflage for the American war machine. Michael Novak, a theologian […]
Now Online: Podcast of BMW Horse**** Interview!
Talk show host Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat on WSPD in Toledo today. We kicked hell out of the Homegrown Terrorism and Violent Radicalization BS Act now before the Senate. There were wine, beer, and cigar jokes, as well as expressions of condolence to the Israeli Prime Minister who might be […]
Terrorist Cabal on the Potomac?
I don’t know for sure that those two were with Hezbollah – or maybe Hamas – but you can’t be too careful in an area perfect for launching kayak attacks on the DC bridges. Unless of course the kayakers drowned before getting that far (as often happens in these waters). Seems like half the people that […]
Ellsberg’s Excellent Memoir
My latest article in Freedom Daily is “Ellsberg’s Lesson for Our Time.” I should have read Daniel Ellsberg’s excellent memoirs – SECRETS: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers – long ago. But better late than never. Here is the lead of the article: Daniel Ellsberg is the kind of American who should receive […]
GoLeft TV Interview Now Online -Radio Broadcast on Saturday
Mike Papantonio of the “Ring of Fire” nationally-syndicated radio program “Ring of Fire” recently interviewed me regarding article on “The 9/11 Servility Reflex.” I just heard from his producer Farron Cousins: “Your interview is going to run on this Saturday’s program, at the top of the second hour. We air from 3p – 6p Eastern […]
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