Antiwar.com’s Scott Horton and I had a good time whipping up on the bad guys in this interview. Until we talked, I hadn’t realized that Scott was the Kingmaker in Kentucky. Here’s Scott’s thumbnail of the 25 minute interview: James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses Bill Clinton’s definition of terrorism: when regular people […]
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Atlanta’s Creative Loafing Newspaper Covers the Barr Ghostwriting Lawsuit
From Creative Loafing, a weekly paper in the Atlanta area (with the second-highest circulation of any paper in Georgia) : Barr ghostwriter finds promoting liberty doesn’t pay May 10, 2010 at 3:58 pm by Scott Henry in News Bob Barr, the GOP congressman-turned-Libertarian presidential candidate (and CL columnist-turned-AJC columnist) is being sued by the ghostwriter […]
Kagan: Obama’s Latest Civil Liberties Disaster
Once again, when Obama had a chance to take a strong stand in favor of the Constitution, he took a dive. His nomination of somemone for the Supreme Court who shirked the most controversial moral and legal issues of the war on terror is appalling. Glenn Greenwald has had the best analysis I’ve seen on […]
Washington Post on the Barr Campaign Ghostwriting Lawsuit
David Weigel, the Washington Post’s “Right Now” columnist/blogger (covering conservatives and the Republican Party), posted the following today on the lawsuit against the Barr 2008 Presidential Committee: The former congressman from Georgia who joined the Libertarian Party and became its 2008 presidential candidate gets some unwelcome attention from Jim Bovard, a prolific libertarian writer who […]
Bob Barr’s “Lessons in Liberty” #1: Pay Your Ghostwriter
Bob Barr has once again made history. His is the only U.S. presidential campaign to ever be sued by its ghostwriter. In June 2008, after Bob Barr captured the Libertarian Party nomination for presidential candidate, his campaign manager, Russ Verney, requested that I ghostwrite a campaign book. We came to terms, I wrote a book, […]
Obama Makes a Joke About Predator Carnage
So now Obama, like Bush, has made a “joke” that views policies that resulted in killing innocent foreign civilians as fodder for mirth at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Obama at that dinner on Saturday night: “The Jonas Brothers are here; they’re out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But boys, don’t get […]
Bush Secrecy – now in Portuguese
Murilo Leme kindly translated my recent Freedom Daily article on Bush Secrecy policies into Portuguese. Here’s his contribution – LIBERDADE CADA DIA O Legado de Sigilo de Bush por James Bovard, Postado em 7 de abril de 2010 Muitos estadunidenses assumiram que o risco a sua liberdade representado pela administração Bush terminou quando George Bush […]
