My old friend Ernie Hancock and I had a rowdy hour-long chat this morn about Ruby Ridge, William Barr, AmeriCorps, and Leviathan’s next big surprise. You can listen to the show by clicking on this link to Ernie’s “Declare Your Independence” radio show audio files – Or you can click on the MP3 files below […]
American Conservative, January 30, 2019 Remembering an AmeriCorps Boondoggle Boss Harris Wofford’s legacy: expensive, government-directed “service” for silly politically approved causes. By James Bovard Harris Wofford, a former U.S. senator and long-time Democratic political operative who ran AmeriCorps from 1995 to 2001, died last week at the age of 92. The New York Times hailed Wofford […]
My old friend Scott Horton and I had a rattling good chat on Trump Attorney General nominee William Barr’s boundless affection for FBI snipers who perchance kill innocent Americans (spurred by my article last week for American Conservative). Barr championed immunity for Lon Horiuchi, the FBI agent who gunned down Vicki Weaver in her cabin […]
Here’s a piece spun off from my 1999 book, Freedom in Chains. In 2007, New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich was writing a piece on czars, called me up and asked if I was still a libertarian. I burst out laughing – but his question was understandable inside the Beltway. From his article: “‘I don’t […]
Here are some photos from a raucous speech I gave in 2007 at the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York. Pro-torture attendees were outraged at my bashing of Bush administration atrocities. At the end of the rambunctious question-and-answer period, FEE president Richard Ebeling eloquently explained why torture was not a libertarian value. […]
Here are my photos of testy folks at today’s Women’s March in downtown Washington. A cold rain didn’t dampen the widespread fury. I suspect there weren’t many Jane Austen fans in attendance.
Seeking to bring order out of the chaos of my hard drive, I came across these photos from a 2008 speech I gave for The Future of Freedom Foundation at George Mason University. (I had to get in one more thrashing of George W. Bush before he left office a few months later.) These pictures […]
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