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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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Rep. Hoekstra Wins CIA Torture Medal of Honor

from the Future of Freedom Foundation sent out this op-ed today – [also posted on Counterpunch here] Hoekstra Receives CIA’s Bootlicking Award by James Bovard, December 28, 2010 On December 21, the Central Intelligence Agency gave its Agency Seal Medal to Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. Hoekstra has labored […]

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