Author Archive | Jim

Great Torture Humor

Tim O’Regan has the perfect response to the Establishment media’s groveling to the tortured confession and the redacted transcript out of Gitmo. O’Regan reveals that KSM and his look-alike, porn star Ron Jeremy, are the “Hairy Brothers of Destruction.”   O’Regan reveals: KSM supplied a type-written note that listed all of the crimes the duo is responsible […]

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My Editor & Publisher hit on TSA’s Miami Killing

I wrote a piece for Editor & Publisher in late 2005 on TSA’s killing of a passenger in Miami.  The link is no longer working, so here’s the piece…. Editor & Publisher, December 15, 2005 Media Docility & Another No Cost Federal Killing? by James Bovard  In the weeks after the Hurricane Katrina debacle, many […]

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Gonzo’s Final Straw?

Murray Waas, one of the best investigative journalists in DC, has a new piece on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s role in derailing a Justice Department investigation of his own possible criminality.  Waas notes at the National Journal: Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush last year on whether to shut down a Justice […]

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Rising Odds of Impeachment

Attorney General Gonzales is dead meat.  His exit is only a question of time.  (I been wrong before, but….) I think the Senate Dems will not confirm some obvious hatchet man as the replacement for Gonzales.   Bush has “benefitted” from two Attorney Generals who were profoundly dishonest and demagogic.  No matter what the Bush administration did, […]

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On Texas Radio with Brian Wilson on Thursday (3/15)

Brian Wilson, one of the best talk show hosts in the country, invited me on his show tomorrow (Thursday, 3/15) at 11 a.m. Eastern time.    Should be a good chance to celebrate the Ides of March for the greatest jurist in modern Texas history, Alberto Gonzales, the soon-to-be former Attorney General.   Brian will be guest hosting […]

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Feds Shaft Historic Gun Maker

Federal gun experts have too often suffered from a shortage of expertise and an excess of spite.  Len Savage, the president of Historic Arms, a Georgia company, is being boarhawged bigtime by the G-men.   He had an excellent commentary piece posted recently by the fine folks at Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.  Claire Wolfe has been […]

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BRAVO! One Down, More to Go

It is encouraging that the jury found Scooter Libby guilty on most charges. It will be amusing to watch the conservative elite howl that the verdict is a violation of their sacred right to rule by deceit. If Libby turns state’s evidence to reduce his prison sentence, the White House could need roof repair real […]

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