UPDATED: Here’s my riff on Waco and Biden from my Saturday speech to the Maryland Libertarian Party convention. Great audience, great banter – a joy to talk to folks who understand the depravity of what the feds did at Waco. Click here to listen or download American Conservative, April 13, 2021 Biden Re-Ignites the Waco […]
Archive | April, 2021
Will Supremes Unleash Biden Red Flag Gun Raids?
American Conservative, April 9, 2021 Will Supremes Unleash Biden Red Flag Gun Raids? A gun seizure case before the Supreme Court could open the flood gates to warrantless searches. by James Bovard President Joe Biden launched his first attack on the Second Amendment this week, making clear his intent to radically curtail Americans’ legal rights […]
Joe Biden’s No Boondoggle Left Behind Plan
Daily Caller, April 7, 2021 BOVARD: Joe Biden’s No Boondoggle Left Behind Plan by James Bovard Contributor “Government must be a powerful force for good in the lives of Americans,” White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese announced on March 29. This is the core principle of President Joe Biden’s promise to “change the […]
200th Anniversary of a Great American Demolition of Tyranny
Here’s my tribute to one of the best and least appreciated classics of American political thought. Here is a link to a free version of the original printing from 1822. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tyranny_Unmasked/HhHVAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover 200th Anniversary of a Great American Demolition of Tyranny by James Bovard This is the 200th anniversary of the publication of one of the […]
FDR’s Great Gold Robbery
Today is the anniversary of one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s worst infamies – his confiscation of privately-owned gold. I wrote the following article in 1999 for Sheldon Richman at the Foundation for Economic Education. This article was a spinoff of Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (St. […]