Newsday’s Walt Handelsman, aided by Roy Furchgott, has a wonderful animated cartoon featuring singing spies. The cartoon is here. This makes the National Security Agency wiretap issue so simple even a congressman might be able to get the point. Perhaps congressmen will respond by merely adding an amendment to a “spying legalization” bill to prohibit the feds […]
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The Washington Post Makes Dictatorial Powers Mundane
Editor & Publisher posted online this afternoon my piece on a Washington Post article that made me shake my head ruefully at the breakfast table. Update: Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin quoted a chunk of this column in his blog today here. How to Make a Power Grab ‘Mundane’ The Washington Post’s story today – […]
Backstage at the Torture Signing Ceremony
The feds have become super vigilant in tapping our phone calls, tracing our movements, and intruding into our lives over the last 5 years. Wouldn’t it be great to have hidden microphones around the White House this morning to hear what was said by dignitaries, congressmen, and other sociopaths invited for the signing ceremony of […]
Bush’s Operation Founding Fathers Fraud
Operation Founding Fathers by James Bovard FREEDOM DAILY July 2006 (posted online by Future of Freedom Foundation October 13, 2006) Few subjects generate more official lies than the U.S. government’s devotion to spreading democracy abroad. Iraq has been the largest most recent geyser of such deceits. In order to understand future U.S. government messianic democracy […]
Cartoon Freedom Fighters
Politics & Prose Bookstore in DC had a book event tonight for Attitude 3 – a collection of the work of “the New Subversive Online Cartoonists.” The book, edited with questions and commentary throughout by Ted Rall, features the work of people more than happy to expose the lies and crimes of the Bush regime. Many […]
Pro Libertate: Independent, Unabashed, and Undaunted
Will Grigg is one of the hardest working pro-freedom bloggers in the business. His Pro Libertate blog is consistently among the punchiest, pithiest, most penetrating takes on the perils of politicians. He has a new blog entry on Sam Adams and the American Revolution that vivifies the danger of waiting until too late to resist oppression. […]
Bush’s Signing Statement Dictatorship
The fine folks at Future of Freedom Foundation posted today a piece I did on Bush’s endless nullifications of federal law. The longer he reigns, the more difficult it is to give Bush the benefit of the doubt. Bush’s Signing Statement Dictatorship by James Bovard, October 9, 2006 President Bush has once again decreed that […]
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Jim
Ms. Podojil, thanks very much for your kind words
catherine podojil
Mr. Bovard,
Thank you for laying it all out so