WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat yesterday about Declan McCullagh’s excellent article on the House Committee vote to require Internet Service Providers to keep records of every website visited by every customer. While this provision is currently the hobbyhorse of nitwit conservative Republicans, the Obama administration also supports this vast data […]
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Debt Limit Talks: “Squeal Like a Pig,” the Establishment Said
Tom Toles’s excellent cartoon below captures the soul of the debt limit talks. Anyone who is not cynical is probably heading for the chopping block. My good friend and talk show hellraiser extraordinaire Brian Wilson has an excellent article tomorrow at LewRockwell.com on the real meanings behind the key terms flung around in the current […]
Debt Limit Talks: Both Parties are Untrustworthy Weasels
I heartily thrashed both Democrats and Republicans in a brief interview this morn with Press TV: U.S. officials are “wasting [the] money” of the American people “in so many different ways” as President Barack Obama and rival Republican lawmakers are struggling to compromise on the federal debt limit which was hit in May, says James […]
Dilbert Captures Twitter’s Soul
[[CARTOON STRIP A FEW INCHES BELOW HERE – @$@#$ WORDPRESS SOFTWARE]] Tweets by JimBovard
Now Officially a Twit – Twitter Feed
So, on top of my other bad habits, now I am tweeting. The phrase that is normally used here is — “You can follow my tweets by going to http://www.twitter.com/jimbovard – …” To be honest, that seems a bit farcical. Too ludicrous to qualify as “grandiose.” Much of whatever I tweet will also be on […]
MP3 of Today’s Zippety Interview with WBAL’s Ron Smith
WBAL’s Ron Smith and I had a rowdy time today paying our respects to the food stamp program. Ron has been doing talk radio for almost 30 years, so he appreciates policy absurdities far better than most hosts. You can hear the @10 minute interview by clicking (or downloading) this link – ron-smith-show-7-11-2011-jim-bovard-food-stamps
My Bastardry Re-Confirmed: “Bovard and His Ilk” [Food Stamps]
The Wall Street Journal published some letters on last week’s food stamp piece. According to Joel Berg of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger: Food-stamp fraud has never cost the American taxpayers anything close to what defense-contractor or corporate-welfare fraud costs, and the number of people illegally using food-stamp benefits has always been dwarfed […]
Jim
Thanks for the plug for Tyranny Unmasked.
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Sean
Political hell it is, and all aboard! If anybody w