The American Conservative just posted the full text of my “Defining Democracy Down” piece online here. And here is the full text: American Conservative April 24, 2006 Monday SECTION: IDEAS; Pg. 18 Vol. 5 No. 8 ISSN: 1540-966X ACC-NO: 69688 LENGTH: 2424 words HEADLINE: Defining Democracy Down BYLINE: Bovard, James. James Bovard is […]
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Groveling vs. Raging
The Washington Post has a front-page piece today sneering at angry bloggers. Here’s the lead: In the angry life of Maryscott O’Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes and realizes that her president is still George W. Bush. The sun has yet to rise and her family is asleep, but no […]
Another Brazen Bush Lie on 9/11
LewRockwell.com posted my piece today on Bush’s brazen lies on Flight 93. This is the type of story that makes even me totter on the edge of cynicism. ANOTHER BUSH 9/11 LIE EXPOSEDby James Bovard The transcript the feds released this week of the final minutes of Flight 93 proves that President Bush brazenly and […]
Constitutionally Clueless Americans vs. Democracy
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 […]
Thanks to Will Grigg & the New American!
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 […]
The Idiocy Behind the Federal Takeover of Agriculture
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my article on how the feds seized control of American agriculture in the late 1920s and early 1930s. This story is not conducive to trust in either politicians or intellectuals. Here’s the wrapup of the piece: Though much of the farm crisis of the early 1930s was […]
Thanks to FFF and Anthony Gregory!
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 […]
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R R Schoettker
That this grotesquely obscene practice wasn’t sh
Tennessee Budd
You forgot the lie of 1861. Some Americans, seeing