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Friday 3rd February 2012

C-SPAN Booknotes: Terrorism & Tyranny (2003 transcript)

1:26 pm | Ron Paul | Terrorism | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

I came across this transcript this morning and figured it was worth sending around the track one more time. You can watch the video from this interview here - Brian Lamb’s views come through more clearly on tape than in the transcript. One of my favorite comments he made: “Well, your sense of [...]

Monday 2nd January 2012

Ron Paul: Toppling Political Idols and Changing American Politics

10:46 am | Democracy | Ron Paul | Uncategorized | Comments: 9

As someone who was born in Iowa, I’m pleased to see many Iowans flocking to support Ron Paul.
The Washington Post has a tut-tutting front-page story today complaining that Paul’s 45-minute stump speech “outlines a view of the world so bleak it would make Chicken Little sound like an optimist.”
It is not surprising that a [...]

Thursday 3rd November 2011

Redefining Extremism: Ron Paul - the Sane Republican Alternative

8:49 pm | Ron Paul | Comments: 2

As Herman Cain’s candidancy melts into absurdity, I hope that reasonable Republicans will take another look at the one principled candidate running for the presidency.
It is ironic how extremist has been redefined in American politics.
In 1964, Barry Goldwater was considered extremist in part because of his rhetoric implying that he could favor a preemptive [...]

Friday 28th October 2011

MP3 of Playing Whack-A-Federal-Mole on the Brian Wilson Show

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a hoot yesterday flogging hell out of the Patriot Act and its noxious progeny.
Dang, hard to believe this stupid act is 10 years old. It has almost outlived my idealism.
You can listen to or download the show by clicking here brian-wilson-patriot-act-bash-10-27-2011

MP3 of Antiwar.com Radio Interview on the Patriot Act

Scott Horton and I had fun on Wednesday hammering the Patriot Act on its 10th anniversary. That noxious law continues to spawn dreadful precedents…
You can listen or download the interview by clicking on this link antiwar-radio-11_10_26_bovard

Monday 15th August 2011

Mainstream Media to Ron Paul: Just Disappear, Dammit!

8:46 pm | Ron Paul | Comments: 5

The media is doing backflips to vaporize Ron Paul after his near-win in the Iowa Straw Poll.
The Washington Post’s front-page article on the Iowa results had only a single parenthetical mention of Ron Paul.
Politico columnist Roger Simon has an excellent column today entitled “Ron Paul Remains Media Poison.”
WSPD’s Brian Wilson did an [...]

Saturday 13th August 2011

BRAVO Ron Paul in Iowa!

6:09 pm | Ron Paul | Comments: 9

Ron Paul finished a very close second to Michele Bachmann in today’s Iowa straw poll - and far ahead of all the other Republican presidential candidates.
After all the ‘dissing Ron Paul has received from the media and other candidates, his stalwart finish in the Hawkeye state puts him in great position moving forward. [...]

Wednesday 17th November 2010

TSA Busted: Ron Paul’s Reform Legislation

Here is Ron Paul’s statement on HR 6416
Introducing the American Traveler Dignity Act
Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation

Sunday 10th October 2010

A Tea Party Bright Side: Making the Fed Sweat

It’s great that the Tea Party is making the Federal Reserve sweat….
The New York Times has a piece detailing how, thanks to Tea Party activists, one “likely outcome” of the November elections “is greater scrutiny of the Fed, even though the Wall Street regulatory overhaul that Mr. Obama signed in July already calls for a [...]

Wednesday 15th September 2010

Abolish the Phony Privacy Board

Washington Times September 16, 2010

BOVARD: Abolish the Phony Privacy Board
Panel was designed to rubber-stamp constitutional infringement
by James Bovard
President Obama has failed to make any appointments to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. This board epitomizes the charades Washington has played since Sept, 11, 2001. Instead of stocking the board with [...]

Monday 28th June 2010

Ron Paul Celebrates Justice Department’s 140th Anniversary

It’s almost always a shock when truth surfaces in the Congressional Record.
Madam Speaker, the House of Representatives recently considered H. Res. 1422, honoring the 140th anniversary of the Department of Justice. I voted against this resolution because of the Justice Department’s history of violating individual rights.
It is the Justice Department that leads the ongoing [...]

Thursday 17th June 2010

Congratulations, Ron Paul - Audit the Fed Triumph

2:12 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Ron Paul | Comments: 0

The House-Senate conferees on the financial reform bill have significantly tightened the bill’s mandate to audit the Federal Reserve.
This is a huge triumph for Ron Paul - and another vindication of his 2008 presidential campaign.
The bill’s provisions do not go nearly far enough - but they are a seachange in official Washington. It was [...]

Monday 3rd May 2010

Audit the Fed Dammit

Nation magazine columnist John Nichols has an excellent piece today on why Obama should reverse his position and support Auditing the Fed. Nichols mentions that Sen. Bernie Sanders will offer an amendment this week to attach ‘Audit the Fed’ to the so-called banking regulation reform bill:
The Sanders amendment would require the Fed to [...]

Monday 19th April 2010

Podcast of April 19th Interview with Ernie Hancock

Legendary hellraiser and freedom fighter Ernie Hancock had me on his radio show today. We talked about the meaning of April 19th - Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing, etc.
He tried to squeeze out a few predictions but I pretty much took a dive.
You can hear the show by clicking radio-jpb-2010-04-19-ernie-hancock-a-pmhere. (The [...]

Wednesday 10th March 2010

Kudos to Kucinich & 64 Other Courageous Congressmen on Afghanistan

11:04 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Ron Paul | Comments: 2

Dennis Kucinich deserves credit for forcing the House to formally debate the Afghan war.
His comments - and those of Ron Paul and the other 63 folks who voted against perpetuating this war - will be part of the honor roll of our time.
On the Republican side, Rep. Paul was joined in opposing the Afghan war [...]

Monday 25th January 2010

Dump Bernanke and Audit the Fed

12:21 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Obama | Ron Paul | Comments: 7

How much damage can one man inflict and still be treated like a saint and savior in Washington?
Ben Bernanke’s career answers that question. The Establishment media has rallied around the current Fed chairman as if his reign was the triumph of wisdom and goodness - instead of a debacle of bursting bubbles and [...]

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. [...]

Monday 19th October 2009

The Feds and the Great Wall Street Heist

9:10 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bailout | Ron Paul | Comments: 3

Here’s a great cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker:

Fortune columnist Allan Sloan explains how the feds are creating vast windfalls for Wall Street firms with its artificial suppression of interest rates - the same policy that is brutally punishing anyone who put their savings in Certificates of Deposit or other interest-rate sensitive [...]

Friday 24th July 2009

Washington Post Condemns Open Government [Audit the Fed]

12:45 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Ron Paul | Comments: 3

Today’s Washington Post contains an editorial that warns that Ron Paul’s “Audit the Fed” bill could end civilized life as we know it.
Well, they didn’t go quite that far - but the editorial reads like it was written in a puddle of sweat.
The Washington Post pretends to take the high ground - and ignores [...]

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