USA Today, March 12, 2019 Ethiopia crash of Boeing 737 Max might be latest example of backfiring safety efforts by James Bovard, If software and sensors are to blame, then the Boeing accidents are another reminder that safety policies can have unintended fatal consequences. Another Boeing 737 crashed Sunday in Ethiopia, killing all 157 aboard. […]
Back on the The Gold Standard with Alan Mosley – a raucous hour fest paying tribute to Walter Jones, remembering Civil War atrocities, flogging the Green New Deal, and castigating politicians of all parties & stripes. The show ends with the Tennessee version of a Monty Python conundrum. The interview starts about 9 minutes into […]
Future of Freedom Foundation The TSA’s Secret Watchlist for Travelers Who Don’t Kowtow by James Bovard “I need a witness!” exclaimed the worried Transportation Security Administration screener at Reagan Washington National Airport a few months ago. Because I had forgotten to remove my belt before going through a TSA scanner, he explained that I must […]
RIP to Rep. Walter Jones, one of the most courageous and outspoken critics of reckless American foreign policy. He proved that even a congressman is corrigible: he went from a zealot supporter of the Iraq War (and the source of the anti-French “Freedom Fries” moniker) to one of the most savvy critics of the war […]
Following up on the tribute to my Aunt Mary after her death early last month (reposted below), here are some other photos of her, especially from her early years in Pennsylvania. Mary cornered the market on cuteness in the 1930s. I used a special scanning setting and then Photoshopped the 1930s and 1940s photos. (Here’s […]
Mises Institute, February 7, 2019 Trump’s Absurd Claim that Americans Are Free from Government Coercion by James Bovard In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump received rapturous applause from Republicans for his declaration: “America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, […]
Here’s are outtakes of my speech and rebuttals from an Independent Institute panel on Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism, held in November 2003 in Oakland, California. I was in California as part of a national book tour to promote Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Peace, and Justice to Rid the World of Evil […]
Jim
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Jack
Jim:
Saw your post about this on X. Agree with
