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Fox News Fan Mail

Got this email from someone who heard my two cents (actually, more like a half cent) on Fox News tonight. I bet this guy is out at a bookstore right now trying to buy up all the copies of my books that he can find.  ********** You are the one with attention deficit disorder.  One […]

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Arms-Length Whoring?

OK, maybe I was wrong in the prior blog about Bush’s new CIA nominee, Michael Hayden, not being linked to the poker-and-poking scandal at the Watergate. TalkingPointsMemo muckraker project reports that “While director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden contracted the services of a top executive at the company at the center […]

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Fan ‘Mail’ of the Week

The radio talk show on KMED in Oregon was lots of fun yesterday.   Host Bill Meyer has thought long and hard about the problem of ignorant voters and government off the leash.  Commenting on my work over the years, he said, “You are one big fat canary in the coal mine.” I admitted that it […]

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Updated Review Comments on Attention Deficit Democracy

Folks occasionally ask me what sort of response ATTENTION DEFICIT DEMOCRACY is generating.  Here is the latest set of reviews & comments. (I don’t think the publisher is planning to put the “character assassinations” quote from the Washington Times review on the front cover of future editions).  For more information on the book  & links to reviews, […]

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Now Online – “Defining Democracy Down”

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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