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My Amazon Profile Page

Amazon has started creating profile pages for authors, including links to all of their books offered by Amazon.  My profile page is here. Several of my books are also for sale at the Laissez-Faire Books website here. Amazon is not carrying Arabic works (as far as I know).  The Arabic language version of Bush Betrayal […]

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Subversive Photos from the DC Antiwar Rally 1/27/07

SEE PHOTO BELOW (@#$# software) This was my favorite photo from Saturday’s demonstration. Where is the Secret Service when you need it? I have 10 other photos posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bovard/  I am tottering on the edge of getting the hang of some of this modern technology. UPDATE 1/30: The Flickr page with the “Bush Swings […]

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Photos from Saturday’s Antiwar Demo

At Saturday’s antiwar demo in DC, it was good to see lots of folks fed up with Bush’s BS.   And there were lots of great signs and comic relief.  I am in the process of loading my photos from the demo here.  I will get more shots up tomorrow morning.  Claire Wolfe kindly posted several of my fav shots on her […]

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LIVE ONLINE Friday (1/19) at 4:30 PM Eastern on Brian Wilson Show

Brian Wilson and I will be thrashing the Bush adminsitration’s latest dodges regarding its illegal surveillance tomorrow afternoon. You can listen live here Brian has been doing a great job whupping up on  the mayor of Toledo, revealing the rascal as a two-bit censorship hack.  There’s a photo of Brian here just before he smashed down […]

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“Close Enough for Government Work” Torture

A newly-released Pentagon-funded study entitled “Educing Information” examines the  “concerns about recent U.S. interrogation activities, subsequent investigations, and the efficacy of contemporary tactics, techniques, and procedures.” Surprise, surprise: the U.S. government has little or no idea what it is doing when it tries to beat the truth out of people.  A Washington Post story on the […]

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Surge & Dictatorship

The real issue in Bush’s speech Wednesday night is not the additional troops he intends to send to Iraq.  The real issue is his nearly open proclamation of  dictatorial powers. Apparently, once a president lies a nation into war, he is entitled to absolute power for as long as he chooses.  Regardless of how many […]

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The Perils of Emergency Power

Freedom Daily    September 2006  (posted online January 2007) The Perils of Emergency Power by James Bovard  The New York Times reported on June 23 that President Bush invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to justify warrantless searches of Americans’ and other people’s financial data. According to Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey, the U.S. government may […]

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