James Bovard

The only reason that Hurricane Sandy feels emboldened to attack America is because, thanks to Obama, we have the smallest Navy since 1917. Disarmament never pays. If we had a real American in the White House, then the East Coast would not be on the verge of being pounded by this hurricane. +++ The gold […]

The one certainty after last night’s debate is that we are going to have a lousy foreign policy for the next four years. Damn little learned from the debacles of the past dozen years – or the past 50 years. So was Romney doing his Herman Cain imitation last night? “America needs a leader, not […]

  This Non Sequitor cartoon has one suggestion on how to keep candidates honest tonight. What other methods might better highlight their falsehoods? The Onion had a great one-sentence summary of last week’s debate: “Nation Tunes In To See Which Sociopath More Likable This Time.” I could complain that the debates are driving me to […]

  This cartoon would be perfect if there was a drone launching a missile to blast Lady Liberty before she escaped and perhaps became either a militant or an extremist. (Excellent cartoon by Joel Pett)

  Lucky for me that this “loudest/most ignorant” rule doesn’t apply to blogs. [excellent cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker]

RIP – Sen. Arlen Specter, one of the heroes of Ruby Ridge. I intensely disagreed with many, if not most, of the positions that Arlen Specter took during his career. And as for the “magic bullet” of the JFK Warren Commission report – bah humbug. But Specter showed great courage in going up against the […]

  I bet the pollsters haven’t talked to those two guys yet. (cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker). On Twitter – @jimbovard