Under the terms of my parole, I’m not allowed to travel west of the Mississippi. Thus, I could not attend the national Libertarian Party convention in St. Louis this past weekend. But here are a couple highlights. Corey Moore, the producer of the Voice of Radical Dissent, taped a lively sparring match between Wayne Allyn […]
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Most Sycophantic Apology for Israeli Attack?
The Israeli military attacks an aid ship in international waters and kills at least 10 people. Naturally, Israel is the victim. As usual, Glenn Greenwald has some of the best reporting and analysis here. Gideon Levy of Haaretz also has an excellent piece. Mossad chief Meir Dagan admitted to a committee of the Knesset today […]
Orient Express to Hell
The Freeman posted online today my article from their June issue about my 1987 excursion to Europe’s worst tyranny. I never trusted fat communist guards with submachine guns…. A couple weeks after I returned, the New York Times published a piece of mine headlined, “Economic Collapse: Eastern Europe: The New Third World” – available here. […]
Podcast of my Radio Interview with Scott Horton of Antiwar.Com
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 […]
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 […]
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