All this hoopla over the alleged Iranian plot to use Mexican drug lords to carry out an assassination of a Saudi at a fictitious DC restaurant – I knew there was something very strange about this… And then I read that the linchpin of the case is a paid Drug Enforcement Administration informant who recently […]
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MP3 of My Interview on Obama’s Assassination Abomination with Brian Wilson
Talk show host and libertarian hell-raiser Brian Wilson and I had fun flailing Obama’s assassination policies on WSPD today. (According to the station’s website, I am WSPD’s “Best Laugh Winner.”) It’s amazing that a president claiming the right to kill Americans based on secret evidence and a secret memo is not stirring up far greater […]
Steve Jobs, Greater Than I Knew – We Need More Hammer Throwers
I never purchased an Apple computer. The magazines and publishers I dealt with preferred PC-based formats, so i have chugged along with tolerable machines over the decades (except for the last Dell piece of @#$#@#$@ I bought). I use computers mostly for simple stuff – glorified word processing – so I didn’t feel a need […]
Assassination Jubilation
At this critical time in our history, we are very lucky that both our president and his killer drones are infallible. I am surprised at how most of the mainstream media is reacting to the U.S. government’s killing of two American citizens – Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and magazine editor Samir Khan. (I wrote about […]
Warren Commission Report: “Deep-Rooted Resentment of All Authority” – the root of all evil
This is the anniversary of the 1964 release of the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The New York Times has reposted its front-page story from that day here. The Times’ notes that the Warren Commission report “listed as factors that might have led Oswald to the assassination ‘his deep-rooted […]
Daily Bell Interview: Life is Too Short to Drink Bad Beer
The good folks at Daily Bell interviewed me last week. Here is the result: James Bovard on His Famous Libertarian Books, America’s Failing Freedom and ‘Why Life Is too Short to Drink Bad Beer’Sunday, September 25, 2011 – with Anthony Wile Introduction: James Bovard is the author of nine books, including Attention Deficit Democracy (2006), […]
Wall Street Journal Letters: Republican Idealist or Labor Department contractor?
The Wall Street Journal published 3 letters today in response to my piece last week on the failure of federal job training programs. The second letter perplexed me: Surely Bob Dole, Howard Baker, Orrin Hatch, Dan Quayle, Nancy Kassebaum, Jim Jeffords, Mike DeWine and Mike Enzi were not supporting “overlap and duplication . . . […]
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