James Bovard

Ben Stone interviewed me yesterday, and he has just put the podcast online at the Bad Quaker site. Ben’s interviews are also broadcast on the Liberty Radio Network. Ben and I had a rattlin’ good chat about Public Policy Hooligan. Ben was especially interested in my secret recipe for marijuana brownies, my path-breaking work at […]

The audio of this morning’s interview with Ernest Hancock on Public Policy Hooligan is now online – at the bottom of the page linked below. Ernie is on the video – I don’t have a camcom gizmo, but that’s for the best because people always tell me that I have a good face for radio. […]

As part of the terms of my parole, I whittled up some memoir essays which are now available as an Amazon ebook titled Public Policy Hooligan. It’s the story of going from Helltown to Washington – lots of mischief (and police encounters) along the way. There is a chapter about my clashes with the FBI […]

Apropos that previous blog entry, software challenges are assuring that I do fail to meet my holiday season profanity quota. I’m trying to convert an  MS Word document into a Kindle format, and have it finessed – except for one minor glitch…. jim@jimbovard.com

As part of the terms of my parole, I have been whittling up some memoir essays.  I will be rolling out an e-book versoin of Public Policy Hooligan on Amazon Kindle sometime in the next week or so (hopefully sooner rather than later). The book will cover my adventures from my first steps in Iowa […]

from the new issue of the American Conservative –   Getting a Read on Rand Paul Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds, Rand Paul, Center Street, 280 pages By James Bovard • November 20, 2012 With Ron Paul’s exit from Congress, his senator son, Rand Paul, is […]

“Cutting the grass” – that’s the term that Israelis use for bombing Gaza. Bibi doesn’t need to worry about running out of “lawnmowers,” thanks to Obama & the US Congress. New York Times columnist Roger Cohen has a good piece on the absurdity of the latest carnage.