Podcast from CPAC Interview with Brian Wilson

I stopped by Brian Wilson’s radio booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday. Click on brian-wilson-2-19-10-cpac-bovard to listen to the interview. I doubt that the Tea Party folks will be coming to either Brian or I for a testimonial any time soon. I continue my campaign to get “boarhawg” recognized as a legitimate verb […]

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Frightening Voters Into Submission

From the November 2009 issue of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily… Frightening Voters Into Submission by James Bovard Former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge has a new book out that reveals that he almost resigned because the Bush administration was hustling bogus terror alerts before the 2004 election. Ridge’s revelation was not surprising to […]

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On Russian TV Talking About American Dictatorial Power

I was on Russian Television (the English language edition) last night talking about all the “emergency” declarations and power grabs by recent presidents. The interview on “The Alyona Show”  starts about 6 minutes into this YouTube segment here. It was ironic to be commenting on the danger of excessive presidential power on Russian TV…. Perhaps at some point […]

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My Early Optimism on the War on Terror & Civil Liberties

I had forgotten about the following riff until stumbling across it a few days ago. In late September 2001, Reason magazine asked a handful of folks “to discuss which civil lliberties they thought were most at risk in what has been called America’s first 21st century war.” They published the responses in an article entitled, […]

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Washington Post: Subjugation as “Apple Pie”

“How Can Apple Pie Suddenly Turn Bad?” reads the headline in the print edition of today’s Washington Post. The article talks of the tragic development that Obama’s health care plan appears to be sinking. The fact that Americans would object to increased political control over health care is so completely inconceivable to Washington Post reporters […]

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Justice Department Bans Justice for Torturers

The Obama Justice Department has apparently decided that, since torture is not a crime (at least not anything deserving of prosecution), then concocting legal doctrines that unleashed torturers around the world is also no offense. A Justice Department internal investigation has concluded that John Yoo and Jay Bybee were gulity only of “poor judgment” in […]

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CIA Torture Success Claim Cast Overboard, Drowns

Jeff Stein has a great piece on how the most prominent CIA apologist for waterboarding has finally ‘fessed up that he didn’t know what he was talking about. Much of the news media treated this CIA “expert” like a hero back in 2007. I assume they will ignore his recantation.

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