From the Future of Freedom Foundation‘s Future of Freedom magazine – THE CONTINUING FORFEITURE SCOURGE by James Bovard A federal crime wave is sweeping the nation, and prosecutors and G-men could not be happier about it. The Wall Street Journal reported that government “forfeiture programs confiscated homes, cars, boats, and cash in more than 15,000 cases [in 2010]. [...]

MP3 Podcast of Today’s IRS Interview with WWL’s Garland Robinette
New Orleans’ radio host Garland Robinette and I had a jolly time kicking around IRS history today on WWL radio. Listening to the traffic report before the show began, I was amused to hear a reference to the “Huey Long Bridge.” Since my Wall Street Journal piece talked about FDR’s targeting of Huey Long, it was [...]
On WWL Radio at 12:35 P.M. Paying Homage to IRS
I’ll be paying homage to the IRS on Garland Robinette’s Think Tank talk show on on WWL radio in New Orleans at 12:35 Eastern time today. WWL is at 870 AM and 105.3 FM and you can listen live by clicking here. I’m not expecting the IRS’s Lois Lerner to call in during the show [...]
ACLU & Antiwar.com Sue FBI for Confidential Records
The ACLU & Antiwar.com are suing the FBI in court to get the FBI’s confidential records on Antiwar.com’s Justin Raimondo & Eric Garris. One FBI agent wrote in a 2004 memo that the Bureau should do further monitoring of Antiwar.com “in the form of opening a ‘preliminary investigation …to determine if [redaction] are engaging in, [...]

Before I Went to the Dark Side
Looking at this early 1960s photo, I am surprised how sweet & innocent I looked before I discovered how much I enjoyed giving hell to government agencies. photo from Public Policy Hooligan
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About James Bovard
James Bovard is the author of Public Policy Hooligan (2012), Attention Deficit Democracy (2006), Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994), and 7 other books. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, New Republic, and many other publications. His articles have been publicly denounced by the chief of the FBI, the Postmaster General, the Secretary of HUD, and the heads of the DEA, FEMA, and EEOC and numerous federal agencies.
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Jim's Other Books
- Attention Deficit Democracy
- The Bush Betrayal
- Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil
- "Feeling Your Pain": The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years
- Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
- Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
- The Fair Trade Fraud
- The Farm Fiasco
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- Arthur Silber
- Brian Wilson Talk Show Legend
- Claire Wolfe Living Freedom
- Free Association
- Future of Freedom Foundation
- Gary Barnett, Libertarian
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- Liberty & Power History News Network
- Project for a New American Revolution
- Rational Review News Digest
- Reason & Jest – Scott Lazarowitz
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