The following riff is part of an American Conservative forum on Obama’s speech. ****** The State of the Union address has long since become “hip boot” time. Shortly after the speech finished, the CNN webpage showed a large photo of Obama giving the speech along with a brief outtake: “CNN BREAKING NEWS: ‘What Comes of […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Burnishing My Terrorist Credentials…
…. or maybe just boosting my rating on the Terrorist Watch List. From Press TV
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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