The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online my Freedom Daily article on FDR’s takeover of American agriculture. The piece is re-posted today at LewRockwell.com. Here’s an outtake: The history of agricultural policy is a history of endless political finagling, of bureaucracies that always lagged behind the pace of events, of policymakers’ appalling misperceptions that repeatedly […]
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Albanian Backlash against the book begins
The Albanian Anti-Defamation League has launched its first attack on Attention Deficit Democracy. A woman who calls herself Kristina Albania – and who confesses that her nickname is “blerta” – angrily attacked the book yesterday in a “customer” (fat chance) review on Amazon. From the Amazon page for Attention Deficit Democracy – Title of […]
Another Brazilian Hit and a Portuguese language review
My piece on the absurd definitions of the “suspected terrorists,” published last month in the Los Angeles Times, was translated and published by Jornal O Estado de Sno Paulo, one of Brazil’s largest newspapers. It was posted online by a Brazilian business lobby here. The generous review essay published by Counterpunch was translated into Portuguese […]
Subversive Ideas Migrate to Brazil
My Newsday piece on mass ignorance vs. American democracy was translated into Portuguese and published in the third-largest newspaper in Brazil. The piece was reposted at this Brazilian blog. Perhaps Brazilians have more interest in ignorant Americans than do many Americans. I hope my article does not do anything to cause the average Brazilian to […]
What They Brag About in Washington
In his speech to the American Legion last Friday, Bush boasted, “With my 2007 budget, we’ll increase VA’s medical care budget by 69 percent since 2001. Our increased funding has given almost a million more veterans access to the VA medical care system.” Bush did not go into further specifics. He did not say anything […]
Confirmed Radio Time – Air America today 10:30
The Air America interview with Charles Goyette will be at 10:30 am Eastern. (Disregard the revised posting here earlier).
Book Signing in Richmond, Va. on Tuesday, Feb. 21
I will be talking and signing books at the Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Va., at 6:30 pm on Tuesday night (2/21). The Fountain Bookstore is at 1312 E. Cary St., (804) 788-1594. Directions and other details are at the bookstore’s website. I have been advised by counsel that, because it has been a long time since […]
Jim Bovard
Thanks! I do try to make it warm for them.....
Ron Redrift
Not satisfied with the long list of government off