Archive | September, 2011

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat yesterday regarding using F-16 fighters to respond to airline passengers hitting the john. I fear that TSA may ban all Mexican fast-food eateries in airports – to save the government the indignity of sending up F-16s when federal air marshals panic about how long someone […]

from the Sept. 13, 2011 editorial page of the Wall Street Journal – What Job ‘Training’ Teaches? Bad Work Habits by JAMES BOVARD Last Thursday, President Obama proposed new federal jobs and job-training programs for youth and the long-term unemployed. The federal government has experimented with these programs for almost a half century. The record […]

Click here to see the video of last week’s speech at George Mason University. I want to thank the Future of Freedom Foundation and the GMU Economics Club for sponsoring the event. I especially want to thank GMU Economics Professor Thomas Rustici for the kind words of his introduction.

I will be on the air and on the net this afernoon with WSPD’s Brian Wilson – a great libertarian radio host – hell, a great radio host per se. We will be discussing the 9/11 anniversary and the use of F-16 fighter jets in respond to airline passengers hitting the john. I will be […]

On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks… Here are some epigrams from Terrorism & Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (Palgrave, 2003): Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy. The Patriot Act treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every federal agent like […]

My spiel tomorrow (Wed., 9/7) at George Mason University will be broadcast live on the Future of Freedom Foundation’s UStream station. To watch the video of the event, just click here. You can submit questions via email that FFF will ask during the event. Unfortuntely, the people watching the web broadcast – unlike the GMU […]