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My Office Motto

[from the new issue of the New Yorker] Hell, if my office looked like a mausoleum like this one does, I’d be a negative thinker, too. Geez, did this guy have a zombie design his office? There are no cigar butts, no pair of pliers to adjust the chair, no stack of empty Remington ammo […]

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Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy

From January 2011, my American Conservative review of Derek Leebaert’s Magic and Mayhem. Worst and Brightest Review of Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan, Derek Leebaert, Simon & Schuster, 336 pages By James Bovard In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign-policy experts have become Washington’s leading […]

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Brian Wilson’s Latest Knockout in Toledo

Toledo is best known in sports history as the location where Jack Dempsey won the heavyweight title by a knockout back in 1919. This past week saw another knockout – this one self-inflicted by the Toledo Blade in its clumsy attempts to smear talk show host Brian Wilson. Wilson effectively toppled Toledo’s Mayor-for-Life Carly Finkbeiner […]

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The Right to Resist Government

The good folks at the Foundation for Economic Education reposted an article this week that I wrote for The Freeman back in 2000. Here’s my hat tip to moderation….. The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty //http://www.thefreemanonline.org The Right of Resistance by James Bovard • August 2000 • Vol. 50/Issue 8 James Bovard is the author […]

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Any Suggestions for Fine-Tuning or Redesigning this Blog???

I’m probably going to update this blog in the next week or two. I will be adding “Add-On” buttons (to easily post blog entries to Facebook, Twitter, etc.), a direct link to my Amazon book page, perhaps a rotating set of quotations, and slightly darker typeset (if possible). Are there other changes that would make […]

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Oh! That’s a War! (Somalia, Yemen, Etc.)

This great Gahan Wilson cartoon from the January 3, 2011 New Yorker captures the cluenessness (real or pretended) of Washington policymakers who pretend that U.S. drones and bombing raids on foreign countries are merely expressions of American good will…  

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