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The Future of Freedom Foundation is sending out my piece today on constitutionally clueless Americans.  The Baltimore Chronicle also has the piece on their site.  Here’s my latest tribute to postive thinking: Constitutional Illiteracy & Attention Deficit Democracy by James Bovard Another poll has confirmed that most Americans are constitutionally without a clue. Americans’ political […]

Will Grigg, who has one of the zestiest, hard-hitting political blogs anywhere, has a review of Attention Deficit Democracy in the April 17 issue of The New American.  Grigg’s article, entitled “Great Leader Democracy,” starts out as follows: “Most Americans are disinclined to think deeply about the tyrannical actions of government, but James Bovard’s Attention […]

According to the Code of Ethics of the National Writers Union, I am prohibited from abstaining from quoting a positive book review. The April issue of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily has a long, thorough, and generous review on Attention Deficit Democracy. The reviewer, Anthony Gregory, has been doing some of the hardest […]

Now I know how General Robert E. Lee felt in 1864 when informed of the death of his calvary leader, Gen. Jeb Stuart.   Lee responded that he had “lost the eyes of the army.” (The previous year, when informed of the death of Stonewall Jackson, Lee said that he had lost his right arm.) Well, […]

I got a call today from a friend who told me that the Arabic version of Bush Betrayal is now in the stores in Beirut.  The translation deal was signed by St. Martin’s Press last May with the Arabic Scientific Publishers in Lebanon.   I have not seen the translated book – or even the cover […]