Posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation – from the September issue of Freedom Daily… HOW GEORGE W. BUSH REDEFINED AMERICAN FREEDOM by James Bovard George W. Bush is gone from Washington but his legacy, like an abandoned toxic waste dump, lingers on. Like President Franklin Roosevelt before him, President Bush helped redefine […]
Archive | December, 2009
The Jim Beam Corrected Version of Boy Scout Creek Crossing Photo
{click on photo for full-size version} Tom Blanton emailed me: “I’ve discovered a new tool in Photoshop that reveals things in pictures that couldn’t be seen before. Check out this new version of your scout picture.” Never expected to see this photo hit by a “truth squad.” This helps explain why I failed the final […]
Boy Scouts & a Pro-Freedom Reaction
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 […]
My Pre-Anarchist Motif
Update #2: Tom Blanton, of the Project for the New American Revolution, also kindly did an upgrade of the photo. Here is Tom’s version: UPDATE: “Black Bloke” and Wes Baker kindly sent improved versions of the photo, now inserted at the top of this post. I’m not sure if Wes’s version will open in some […]
John Brown: One Terrorist Who Deserved Hanging
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 his own Scorched Earth […]
Will Obama Out-BS Bush?
Obama’s speech from West Point tonight may drive the final wooden stake into liberals’ hope that their guy would create a Brave New Order in Washington and the world. The fact that Obama is following in Bush’s footsteps – talking to an audience of captive individuals who would be ruined for life by a single […]
Jim Bovard
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Ron Redrift
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