This is a photo of Ludwig von Mises’ historian Richard Ebeling ”near the TV Tower in Vilnius, Lithuania, January 13-14, 1991, (Soviet tank and crew member in background) after the Soviet military seized government buildings and communication centers in an attempt to crush the Lithuanian freedom movement. Thirteen people killed that night resisting Soviet power,” [...]
From Hooligan: How I Got Kicked Out of the Supreme Court
The @HLMenckenbot had a great Mencken quote on Twitter this morning: “The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.” It never occurred me that laughing in court could be a crime punishable by jail time. But maybe [...]

MP3 of IRS Interview on Janine Turner Radio Show
I had a lively chat yesterday with conservative firebrand and former Hollywood star Janine Turner on her Houston KPRC (and XM/Sirius) radio show. She wanted to hash out the Wall Street Journal piece on the IRS, and we had fun jibing at Congress. Well, at least I did. I got the hunch that Janine’s confidence in [...]

Perfect Artwork for IRS Tea Party Scandal
The IRS enjoyed using the tax exemption applications from the Tea Party for bureaucratic target shooting. But now the agency is finding itself in the wrong end of the political shooting gallery. [the great illustration is from today's New York Times]
Will Congressional Republicans Ever Be Worth A Damn For Freedom?
The American Conservative posted online today my review of Jim Antle’s zippety new book, Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?. Antle recognizes the peril of Leviathan and is fairly optimistic on what Republicans can become and achieve. Here are a few of my lines from the review – which is posted in its [...]
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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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- 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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