Here is the introduction chapter of Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years (St. Martin’s/Palgrave, 2000). This was my parting bouquet to the Clinton White House. The book went to three printings within the first month of its release but slowed down afterwards. (It did not contain any […]
Intro chapter to ATTENTION DEFICIT DEMOCRACY (2006)
Here’s the introduction from Attention Deficit Democracy (2006). This book may have struck more of a nerve with reviewers et al. if it had come out a year later. It was considered too cynical by many folks back in ’06. Rather ironic, given subsequent American history…. For instance, Bush’s television address last night epitomized how […]
The Highway Robber State
The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States – governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from marauding bands of politicians. (from Freedom in Chains, 1999) If you voted in the congressional elections two years ago, were you ceding the right to the winners to give @ a […]
Bush Teams Seeks Financial Dictatorial Powers
In order to save the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Bush administration seeks boundless power that cannot be reviewed by federal courts. Didn’t we try this already at Gitmo, and it didn’t work out so well? from Bloomberg: Treasury Seeks Asset-Buying Power Unchecked by Courts (Update2) By Alison Fitzgerald and John Brinsley Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) […]
Introduction to Bush Betrayal (2004)
Continuing with the parade of Introductions, here’s the lead chapter from Bush Betrayal (2004). This book generated a lot of vituperative fan mail. Here is a collection of the highlights: “Bush Supporters Vindicate the President.” I began to wonder if supporting George W. Bush automatically depraved people’s ability to spell. It is unfortunate that more Americans did not catch […]
Ron Paul Supporters Vindicated?
[full size photo at my Flickr site here ] And to think that many people thought that the Ron Paul supporters were too cynical about the Fed…. This monster bank/stock market bailout shaping up in Washington will probably be one of the greatest cons of the new century. This is simply letting politicians give themselves a blank check […]
My FFF Speech on “Bush’s War on Civil Liberties” is Now Online
The Future of Freedom Foundation put online today the speeches from their June conference. You can watch them here. My topic was “Bush’s War on Civil Liberties.” I had wanted to do an even-handed treatment of the issue but there were time limitations, so… The same webpage has links to the videos of the other […]
Ricardo2000
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956):
“Nobody ever went
R R Schoettker
The utter impotent uselessness of the US congress
Texas Dan
If Waco didn't wake you up, nothing would/wil