Murray Waas, one of the best investigative journalists in DC, has a new piece on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s role in derailing a Justice Department investigation of his own possible criminality. Waas notes at the National Journal: Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush last year on whether to shut down a Justice […]
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Rising Odds of Impeachment
Attorney General Gonzales is dead meat. His exit is only a question of time. (I been wrong before, but….) I think the Senate Dems will not confirm some obvious hatchet man as the replacement for Gonzales. Bush has “benefitted” from two Attorney Generals who were profoundly dishonest and demagogic. No matter what the Bush administration did, […]
My Time in the Tower of London
The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online an article of mine from the December Freedom Daily. I posted an excerpt of this piece here earlier; here is the full text. MY TIME IN THE TOWER OF LONDON by James Bovard I visited the Tower of London in May on an overcast, dreary Friday afternoon. […]
“Liberating” Iran, Enslaving America
Will Grigg, the editor of Pro Libertate, has a new e-zine. Will ran a piece of mine in his initial issue. Will does great work – I hope people check out his hot new ‘Net publication here. “Liberating” Iran, Enslaving the USA The price of “regime change” in Iran might be the loss of what […]
Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us
The above ad is from VelvetRevolution.us. I snapped this photo of their Republican fashion statement at the antiwar demonstration in DC on January 27. (Full size photo is available here.) VelvetRevolution has another advertisement out proclaiming: WAR CRIMINALS GET HANGED Who is willing to hang beside George Bush? The ad features a picture of Saddam getting […]
Democracy versus Liberty
Even with George W. Bush as president, democracy does not guarantee liberty. Here is a piece I wrote for the Freeman on the topic last summer (now online here in PDF). The editor of the Freeman, Sheldon Richman, has one of the best freedom blogs on the Net; his “Free Association” is here. If you enjoy […]
Bush Brings Medieval Justice to America
The Bush administration has been shockingly clear regarding its intentions to medievalize American justice. The memos vindicating torture written by high-ranking Bush administration officials should have woken up all Americans to the rising peril. Unfortunately, the memos have gotten far less attention than they deserve. This article, posted today by the Future of Freedom Foundation, ran […]