from the July issue of Freedom Daily, posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation – The Soviet Union’s Continuing Influence on America by James Bovard It has been almost 20 years since the Soviet Union officially dissolved. While the nation of that name no longer exists, its legacy continues influencing political thought and […]
Archive | October, 2011
Are Americans Getting the Government They Deserve?
The last line of my previous post – “Americans deserve better” – has sparked a number of skeptical emails and comments. Let me clarify. It is a popular saying that people get the government that they deserve. This has rarely been more false than in current times. The fact that most Americans are politically ignorant […]
Ron Paul’s Peace & Freedom Message vs. Republican Establishment
Ron Paul has won many of the Republican Party straw polls over the past six months. But during the last 3 televised Republican debates, Paul received less than 19 minutes to expound and defend his views – less time than any other candidate. This is shabby even by Republican standards. At a time when the […]
Claire Wolfe’s Great New Novel – Hardyville Tales
Claire Wolfe is one of the finest freedom writers around. She has a knack for making freedom both vivid and fun. She has a new novel entitled Hardyville Tales – When ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ meets ‘For Your Own Good.’ The book is based in part on the hugely-popular series of internet columns Claire has […]
DEA Informants: America’s Biggest Liars? – Iran Farce
All this hoopla over the alleged Iranian plot to use Mexican drug lords to carry out an assassination of a Saudi at a fictitious DC restaurant – I knew there was something very strange about this… And then I read that the linchpin of the case is a paid Drug Enforcement Administration informant who recently […]
MP3 of My Interview on Obama’s Assassination Abomination with Brian Wilson
Talk show host and libertarian hell-raiser Brian Wilson and I had fun flailing Obama’s assassination policies on WSPD today. (According to the station’s website, I am WSPD’s “Best Laugh Winner.”) It’s amazing that a president claiming the right to kill Americans based on secret evidence and a secret memo is not stirring up far greater […]
Steve Jobs, Greater Than I Knew – We Need More Hammer Throwers
I never purchased an Apple computer. The magazines and publishers I dealt with preferred PC-based formats, so i have chugged along with tolerable machines over the decades (except for the last Dell piece of @#$#@#$@ I bought). I use computers mostly for simple stuff – glorified word processing – so I didn’t feel a need […]
