from the new issue of the American Conservative –  Getting a Read on Rand Paul Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds, Rand Paul, Center Street, 280 pages By James Bovard • November 20, 2012 With Ron Paul’s exit from Congress, his senator son, Rand Paul, is […]
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Wash. Times: Dollars for Smiles – Happiness Mischief from Uncle Sam
Washington Times June 15, 2012 Dollars for Smiles: Government Seeks Happiness Index by James Bovard The Obama administration is financing research to devise a new gauge for measuring Americans’ happiness. A National Academy of Sciences panel is analyzing proposals for surveying Americans’ “subjective well-being.” But there are grave perils in any “national happiness index” Uncle […]
My Endorsement of WeWontFly.Com
Anti-TSA activist Ken Krawchuk caught me on film at last year’s Maryland Libertarian Party convention responding to his question about the great TSA boycott that he, Jim Babb, and others organized in late 2010. They did a superb job – that was probably the worst PR drubbing the TSA has yet received. Here’s the video:
C-SPAN Booknotes: Terrorism & Tyranny (2003 transcript)
I came across this transcript this morning and figured it was worth sending around the track one more time. You can watch the video from this interview here – Brian Lamb’s views come through more clearly on tape than in the transcript. One of my favorite comments he made: “Well, your sense of humor — […]
MP3 of Brian Wilson Show on Using F-16s To Curb Airplane Bathroom Loitering
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 […]
MP3 of Freedom Fest Panel Flogging the War on Terror
Jacob Hornberger, Sheldon Richman, and I had fun flogging the war on terror during a Freedom Fest panel earlier this month. Since I was the token moderate on the panel, I went third. I started out my riff (@ 20 minutes into the tape) talking about how a TSA agent at Baltimore went berserk over […]
Speaking at Maryland Libertarian Party Conf on March 12
I will be speaking after dinner at the Maryland Libertarian Party convention on March 12 in Dundalk, Maryland. Dundalk is down the road from the old Sparrow Point steel mill, and just after the Baltimore tunnel. Topic will be the Patriot Act, TSA, and other outrages against Americans’ liberty. My spiel is scheduled for 7:30. […]
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