From my 2025 Mises Institute Summit speech: James Bovard surveys attacks on property rights—from “open-fields” searches and no-knock raids to eminent domain and civil asset forfeiture—showing how each erodes privacy and freedom.
“Paternalism is a desperate gamble that
lying politicians will honestly care
for those who fall under their power.”
From my 2025 Mises Institute Summit speech: James Bovard surveys attacks on property rights—from “open-fields” searches and no-knock raids to eminent domain and civil asset forfeiture—showing how each erodes privacy and freedom.
Mises Institute Senior Fellow Robert Murphy and I had a rollicking time rehashing the crimes and outrages of Ruby Ridge on his podcast.
The Supreme Court will hear the Alaska airplane beer robbery case I discussed last October at the Mises Institute Summit last October in Florida. Congratulations to the Institute for Justice and Dan Alban on another great forfeiture case.
Here’s my 1996 spiel on Ruby Ridge from Stanford University. Ruby Ridge epitomized federal atrocities & federal oppression for millions of Americans.
On this day in 2012, Barron’s published my guest editorial on “Potomac River Blindness” – Washington’s bipartisan conspiracy against prosperity and freedom. In the subsequent 14 years, politicians and the federal government have become far more wasteful & ruinous. “Washingtonians view each billion dollars of government spending as magic beans that automatically sow blessings across […]
UPDATE: 7,000+ views on Twitter/X & Facebook My Waco finale from the 1994 Second Amendment Rally at the Lincoln Memorial. “The federal government’s assault on gun owners is part of a general attack on the people’s rights and liberties.” Text: Here we are, barely a year after Waco, and when the federal reports […]