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Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a twitter message yesterday declaring that “Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.” Gracious – politicians face a few procedural hurdles and then claim that they suffered the equivalent of having their heads busted by goons with […]

I will be on the Brian Wilson radio show today from @ 5:05 pm to 5:30. We will have a good ol’ time ragging on government surveillance and other damn outrages. Listen Live here. (He is on Toledo’s WSPD – 1370 on the AM dial). **** UPDATE: The podcast of the interview is now available […]

This would have been author and freedom fighter Harry Browne’s 76th birthday. Harry (who passed away in 2006) did great work for decades and he helped awake and inspire many people to the value of freedom and the perils of political saviors. His work on surviving economic nosedives is more relevant now than it has […]

Murilo Leme kindly translated my piece on the Obama torture coverup into Portuguese. I am told that sarcasm works better in Portuguese, so the humor may work better in the translation than the original. XXXXX O Mais Recente Cambalacho de Encobrimento da Tortura por James Bovard, 10 de junho de 2009 A administração Obama parece […]

INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY JUNE 11, 2009 U.S. Bailout Of Tinhorn Dictators Sacrifices Taxpayers On IMF Altar By JAMES BOVARD The Obama administration wants to pledge $100 billion in U.S. taxpayers’ money to the International Monetary Fund. This provision is included in an appropriations bill containing supplemental funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Luckily, […]

On June 8, 1967, Israeli forces knowingly attacked an American intelligence ship off the coast of Egypt. Thirty-four Americans were killed. The Johnson administration responded by rushing to coverup the facts. James Bamford, author of Body of Secrets, has unearthed massive evidence proving that the Israelis had definitely identified the ship as American before they […]

I have been ragging on Prince George’s County, Maryland (adjacent to DC) for most of this decade. Good Ol’ PG just outdid itself. The county prosecutor has signaled that there will be no charges in the case of an inmate murdered by prison guards. Whoops – that’s not quite what PG officials said. Instead, there […]