James Bovard

People sometimes ask me why I am prejudiced towards New Jersey and/or politicians. Depending on how much coverage the story below receives, the New Jersey Tourist Bureau may need to buy some more advertisements in the Washington area. I will be curious to see whether this guy’s lawyers try to get charges dropped on the […]

The crisis with Obama supporters is far worse than I thought. The sad proof is here. Has anybody seen a good roundup of quotes by the media, pundits, & other such ilk gushing about how we are entering a new age of idealism? Trumpeting how Obama’s victory redeems democracy, America, et. al.??

The vast majority of rascals are getting reelected tonight. That’s the bad news. But since I am a “glass one-eighth full” kind of guy, let’s focus on some of the bad guys going down in flames. Here are two of my favs from the evening so far. Who else should we be celebrating here? Chris […]

The podcast of Wednesday’s radio interview with Scott Horton is now online here. We had a rattlin’ good discussion, covering a heap of topics and clobbering politicians left and right. Thus far, I have not been contacted by the lawyers for the West Virginia Anti-Defamation League.

This is the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Marines. President Reagan sent in U.S. troops to try to help stabilize Lebanon after the Israeli invasion (and massacres by Israeli proxies in Palestinian refugee camps) the prior year. This was Reagan’s biggest antiterrorism debacle. He failed the Marines […]

Scott Horton and I will be bantering about Bush and other disasters today (Wed., 10/22) at 1:15 pm Eastern. I think you can listen live either here (Listen Live link is on left hand side) or here. (I’m not sure on the latter link.) The program should be available as a podcast within the next […]