Michael Tennant emailed me on Saturday to get my response to the news that Donald Rumsfeld would be receiving the “Defender of the Constitution” award at CPAC. He has a very good article at The New American website with quotes from a number of libertarians and conservatives bashing the award. Tennant notes that my “two-word […]
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Book Signing [or ??] at CPAC Saturday Afternoon
CORRECTION: Looking at the revised schedule, it looks like the book signing may be from 12:30 pm to 1 pm on Saturday. Campaign for Liberty has arranged for me to do a book signing on Saturday at 12:30 pm at the Conservative Political Action Conference in DC. I’ll be at the C4L booth in the […]
Patriot Act and Attention Deficit Democracy
The Campaign for Liberty reposted this 2006 article of mine today, so, what the heck – I’ll pile on. The Patriot Act and Attention Deficit Democracy By James Bovard The American political system failed when Congress and the media recently rolled over in favor of extending the most onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. […]
My 2 Cents on Obama’s State of the Union Address
The following riff is part of an American Conservative forum on Obama’s speech. ****** The State of the Union address has long since become “hip boot” time. Shortly after the speech finished, the CNN webpage showed a large photo of Obama giving the speech along with a brief outtake: “CNN BREAKING NEWS: ‘What Comes of […]
Thoughts on Obama’s State of the Union Speech?
The American Conservative is doing a symposium on reactions to Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. I will add my two cents late tonight or early tomorrow. I’d be curious to know what others expect from the speech – or what they think of the actual spiel. This would be a terrible night to […]
Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy
From January 2011, my American Conservative review of Derek Leebaert’s Magic and Mayhem. Worst and Brightest Review of Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan, Derek Leebaert, Simon & Schuster, 336 pages By James Bovard In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign-policy experts have become Washington’s leading […]
JFK+50: Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy
I received a copy of the March issue of the American Conservative in the mail today. Here are some brief outtakes from a book review (totaling @ 2000 words) I wrote in that issue on the general theme of Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy : *In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign policy experts […]
R R Schoettker
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
Jim
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Alan Strange
Great video, visited there a few years back to pay