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

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 humor — […]

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EEOC’s Forgotten Racial Racketeering

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today this article from the November issue of Freedom Daily – The EEOC’s Forgotten Racial Racketeering by James Bovard Few federal agencies have a more brazen history of trampling due process and basic fairness than the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. From the time the EEOC was created in […]

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The Fed is Wrecking Our Economy

My two cents on the latest humbug from Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke: In an interview with Press TV on Thursday, James Bovard, a policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation explained that U.S. Federal Reserve policies are further hurting the U.S. economy rather than improving it. “The Federal Reserve itself has done so […]

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Next Week: FFF/Hornberger on Civil Liberties College Tour

The Young Americans for Liberty and the Future of Freedom Foundation will be putting on a college tour next week on “The War on Terrorism, Civil Liberties, and the Constitution.” FFF president Jacob Hornberger will be joined by best-selling author Glenn Greenwald and former Reagan Justice Department official Bruce Fein for a series of panels […]

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Karen Kwiatkowski for Congress – Go Virginia!

Karen Kwiatkowski, an author and retired Air Force Lt. Col., is running for Congress in Virginia’s Sixth District. Beginning in 2003, Kwiatkowski exposed the shenanigans she had seen in the Pentagon leading up to the invasion of Iraq. She has shown more courage than an entire 747 full of laptop bombardiers. Karen is an avid […]

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Epigrams from My Sordid Past

Dipping into my books, I plucked out some of my favorite lines. FWIW: From The Farm Fiasco (ICS Press, 1989) * For sixty years, politicians have driven American farmers out of world markets and onto the government dole. *Nineteenth-century reformers built their utopias on the expectation of an imminent change in human nature. Twentieth-century reformers […]

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Persian Gulf Folly Redux (1987)

Following is a piece I wrote in 1987 on the Reagan administration’s idiotic intervention in the Persian Gulf. Versions of this piece appeared in USA Today and the Detroit News. JUST ANOTHER AMERICAN SITTING DUCK by James Bovard Sentimentality now appears to be the soul of Reagan’s foreign policy. From charging into the Persian Gulf […]

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