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Wednesday 21st April 2010

My Culpability for the Oklahoma City Bombing

I almost forgot my role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
No - I’ve never been to Oklahoma.
But a 1999 Los Angeles Times review of one of my books made similar points to what Bill Clinton made in his New York Times op-ed on Monday. The reviewer, Anthony Day, was horrified at my rejection [...]

Thursday 15th April 2010

Podcast of Census-Bashing Interview on Free Talk Live

Mark Edge of Free Talk Live interviewed me yesterday on the Census, government surveillance, and other perils of our times.
The podcast is here. My interview is the final 20 minutes of the 2+ hour program.
I did not see the interview listed as a separate downloadable file. If I missed something [...]

Sunday 7th March 2010

My Brief State Department Career

8:19 pm | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 3

It lasted about 60 minutes. 75 minutes, max.
The photo is from late 1988 or early 1989. The State Department had a program that brought in some outside speaker once a month. I was there to whup up on the World Bank, a favorite target of mine in those years.
The [...]

Friday 5th March 2010

The Material Witness Ticket to Servitude

The Future of Freedom Foundation put online my article from the December Freedom Daily….
It’s amazing to see what kind of legal crap the government gets away with these days.
The Material Witness Charade Freedom Daily, December 2009
by James Bovard
Last September, a federal appeals court ruled that former [...]

Friday 15th January 2010

Bogus Anti-Terrorist Crackdown on Financial Freedom

posted today by the Future of Freedom Foundation - from the October 2009 issue of Freedom Daily…
The Bogus Anti-Terrorist Crackdown on Financial Freedom
by James Bovard
In the post–9/11 era, federal officials are treating cash as they would a suspected weapon of mass destruction. They have created legions of new restrictions and reporting requirements for citizens’ money. [...]

Friday 1st January 2010

Thanks to All the Fine Commentors in 2009!

10:32 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 11

I want to thank the folks who added so many excellent thoughts and flashes of wit to this blog over the past 12 months. I’ve gotten a heap of insights from y’all! And it is fun to share the revelry when bad guys crash and burn, or when some federal agency has [...]

Monday 14th December 2009

The Great Beer Massacre of 2009!

9:42 pm | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 13

My all-time favorite beer is no longer being imported!
I have been a huge fan of Dinkel Acker, a wonderful German pilsner, for more than a decade. I would buy cases at a time, making it worthwhile to scamper across the Potomac to a state with civilized beer buying laws. (Montgomery County, Maryland, [...]

Tuesday 8th December 2009

Boy Scouts & a Pro-Freedom Reaction

7:42 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 4

I appreciate the comments on the creek-crossing photo.
The Boy Scouts of America begin their 100th anniversary celebration on December 10, and I’m curious about the political impact of the Scouting experience.
I am wondering how many guys who were in the Scouts became more pro-freedom in response to the heavy-handed invocations of authority and [...]

Wednesday 2nd December 2009

John Brown: One Terrorist Who Deserved Hanging

8:38 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 14

This is the 150th anniversary of the hanging of John Brown. When he attacked Harper’s Ferry with a handful of followers, the butcher of Kansas helped sow the seeds of the Civil War. Few things would have made Brown happier than the thought of hundreds of thousands of people dying for [...]

Thursday 5th November 2009

The Media as Enablers of Government Lies

Posted online today…
The Media as Enablers of Government Lies Freedom Daily August 2009
by James Bovard
Why do politicians so easily get away with telling lies? In large part, because the news media are more interested in bonding with politicians [...]

Friday 30th October 2009

Shocking! 400 Members of Congress Not Suspected of Wrongdoing

An online “security breach” yesterday disclosed a confidential House Ethics Committee document which revealed that dozens of members of Congress are under investigation for ethical lapses - i.e., being crooks, weasels, etc.
That means that more than 400 members are not being actively investigated by their peers for wrongdoing or all-round conniving.
This is the [...]

Thursday 22nd October 2009

Karzai Gets 2nd Chance to Steal the Election

So what am I missing in Afghanistan?
Isn’t this like catching a really dumb bank robber in the act (stealing almost a million votes) - and then, instead of booking him on charges, giving him another chance to rob the same bank?
The U.S. government and NATO are going to let Karzai take another swing at [...]

On Fox News “Freedom Watch” Friday (10/23) at @ 12:15 pm

Fox News’ Judge Napolitano interviewed me today regarding how the Patriot Act allows the feds to plunder the cash of innocent Americans. This is a damned outrage that Congress is definitely not fixing with the current Patriot Act “reform” legislation.
You can watch the program online here tomorrow (Friday). It airs between [...]

Tuesday 20th October 2009

Where do we Report the Terrorist Cops???

The Los Angeles Police Department has a new video out encouraging people to run squealing to the police practically every time some stranger asks directions to City Hall.
This is part of an orchestrated effort to keep people jumpy and clamoring for government to save them.
But where do we report terrorist cops? Los Angeles [...]

Sunday 4th October 2009

YouTube version of the Glenn Beck interview

10:13 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | wool | Comments: 0

I finally came across a YouTube clip of the Glenn Beck interview on AmeriCorps.
You can watch it here.
I forgot the cigar.
[Suggestions are welcome... ]

Thursday 24th September 2009

Antiwar Interview on Ashcroft, Tyranny, etc. now online

Scott Horton and I had a rollicking good chat earlier this week on the post 9/11 roundup of innocent terrorist suspects, why John Ashcroft should receive “justice” (and hard), the outrage of sovereign immunity, and the bisexual congresswoman entrapped by a lesbian foreign agent.
You can hear it here.
[If that link doesn't work, hit this [...]

Monday 21st September 2009

My Paranoia Vindicated - Gahan Wilson

3:58 pm | Bovard | wool | Comments: 2

“When did you first become aware of this imagined ‘plot to get you?’”
Or, as they said after Ruby Ridge, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they are not out to get you.”
Gahan Wilson (no relation to Ruby Ridge) has a new 3 volume collection of his Playboy cartoons hot off the presses.
Wilson will [...]

Thursday 17th September 2009

Civility, 2007-Style: Hanging George Bush

Some people who are outraged by anti-Obama placards have forgotten that, only a few years ago, many people were condemning George Bush in terms as harsh or harsher.
Here is a picture I took at an antiwar rally in Washington in January 2007. The sign - “What’s good for the goose….. gandar” - [...]

Sunday 13th September 2009

Bluegrass Festival: Danny Paisley & Southern Grass, Etc.

10:27 pm | Bovard | Comments: 4

I caught the “Bluegrass on the Farm” festival in Derwood, Maryland on Saturday.
Danny Paisley and Southern Grass put on two magnificent performances. Paisley and his band are nominated for 4 awards this year from the International Bluegrass Music Association. Rain made the audience sparse, but Paisley and crew performed at a [...]

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