The Los Angeles Times ran a piece of mine today on fair play for our elected representatives. Online here (registration required?) and following: Modest Proposal: Waterboard Congress Maybe White House-favored interrogation techniques would coax lawmakers to tell the truth about U.S. anti-terror policies. By James Bovard JAMES BOVARD is the author, most recently, of “Attention […]
Justice Dept. Appeals Ruling on “No Hereditary Kings”
Federal judge Anna Diggs Taylor declared in a ruling today: “We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no power not created by the Constitution. So all ‘inherent power’ must derive from that Constitution.” The […]
Bush: Betrayed by Iraqi Ingrates
Today’s New York Times reveals that George W. Bush is deeply disappointed that the Iraqi people have “not shown greater support for the American mission.” One person who attended a meeting of Bush’s “war cabinet” on Monday commented on Bush’s reaction: “I sensed a frustration with the lack of progress on the bigger picture of […]
Bush Out-Drivels Himself
So Bush made the supreme sacrifice, returning from his vacation in Texas to Washington to inform Americans of his latest victories in the Middle East. His comments at the State Department yesterday came close to breaking his previous personal best in both the delusions and drivel categories. Bush began by declaring that Hezbollah was fully […]
Paving the Way to War with Iran
Israel’s war on Lebanon is a warm-up for the U.S. war on Iran. That is the message of Seymour Hersh’s latest superb article in the New Yorker. Hersh reveals that the Bush administration was “closely involved” in planning Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. A former senior intelligence official informed Hersh that, beginning this Spring, “planners from […]
A Bootlicker Bites the Dust
… at least temporarily. The defeat of Joe Lieberman in the Democratic senate primary in Connecticut is good news for anyone who dislikes pious warmongers. Lieberman deserved to lose for many reasons – not the least of which was his assertion that Democrats are obliged to swallow Bush’s lies in the name of national security. […]
Quality Paperback Book Club to offer ATTENTION DEFICIT DEMOCRACY
I have been informed by Palgrave that the Quality Paperback Book Club is planning to do a softcover edition of Attention Deficit Democracy. I wonder if A.D.D. will be among the books offered in promos (3 books for $3) along with sensual massage guides and Dilbert cartoon collections. I suspect there is a potential jest near […]
