The fine folks at the Future of Freedom Foundation posted a piece of mine on how government cons people into submission. The timing is a bit unfortunate, since the 2006 election campaign disproved my assertion that politics is perennially dishonest. Lies and Leviathan by James Bovard Freedom Daily August 2006 Big government requires big lies — and […]
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“Every Day is 1956”: The Hungarian Revolution Today
The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out an op-ed I wrote on the Hungarian Revolution, then and now. Here’s the piece. “Every Day is 1956:” The Hungarian Revolution Today by James Bovard Friends of freedom should doff their hats to the Hungarians this week. Fifty years ago, the Hungarian people bravely expelled Soviet tanks […]
LISTEN LIVE – Thursday (10/26) – on the Brian Wilson Radio Show
Brian Wilson, one of the best talk show hosts in the country, invited me on his show tomorrow (Thursday, 10/26) at 4:30 pm Eastern time for half an hour. You can listen live here. He is on WSPD in Toledo, 1370 AM. Should be plenty of laughs, especially about torture and Bush.
Live Online Today (10/25) at 2 PM Eastern – Salt Lake City radio
I will be on the “Born on the Fourth of July” radio show with host Barbara Whiteley today (Wed., 10/25) for one hour starting at 2 p.m. Eastern time. You can listen live on the net here (link is in the upper right corner). The station is at 630 AM on the dial.
Great Cartoon Bashing NSA Wiretaps on Americans
Newsday’s Walt Handelsman, aided by Roy Furchgott, has a wonderful animated cartoon featuring singing spies. The cartoon is here. This makes the National Security Agency wiretap issue so simple even a congressman might be able to get the point. Perhaps congressmen will respond by merely adding an amendment to a “spying legalization” bill to prohibit the feds […]
Bush’s Operation Founding Fathers Fraud
Operation Founding Fathers by James Bovard FREEDOM DAILY July 2006 (posted online by Future of Freedom Foundation October 13, 2006) Few subjects generate more official lies than the U.S. government’s devotion to spreading democracy abroad. Iraq has been the largest most recent geyser of such deceits. In order to understand future U.S. government messianic democracy […]
Cartoon Freedom Fighters
Politics & Prose Bookstore in DC had a book event tonight for Attitude 3 – a collection of the work of “the New Subversive Online Cartoonists.” The book, edited with questions and commentary throughout by Ted Rall, features the work of people more than happy to expose the lies and crimes of the Bush regime. Many […]
