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 […]
Archive | January, 2012
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Folly of Attacking Iran
Listening to the half-witted ratcheting up of hostilities by both the U.S. and Iranian governments reminded me of this piece I wrote for the Future of Freedom Foundation in the wake of George W. Bush’s Iraq victory speech. It is difficult to detect a learning curve in Washington in the subsequent 7+ years. Instead, the […]
Ron Paul: Toppling Political Idols and Changing American Politics
As someone who was born in Iowa, I’m pleased to see many Iowans flocking to support Ron Paul. The Washington Post has a tut-tutting front-page story today complaining that Paul’s 45-minute stump speech “outlines a view of the world so bleak it would make Chicken Little sound like an optimist.” It is not surprising that […]
