The American Conservative What the ‘Dumpster Fire’ D.C. Metro Says About Federal Bureaucracy City council just voted to impose a 500 percent tax hike on Uber and Lyft. Really? By James Bovard • July 10, 2018 The Washington D.C. Metro.(Credit: Thomas Hawk/Flickr/Creative Commons The District of Columbia Council voted in June to impose a […]
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Sedition 1996-Style: Speech on the Destruction of American Liberty
Here’s a C SPAN video from a 1996 speech at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Here are some outtakes: A lucid understanding of the nature of government is the first line of defense for individual freedom. Freedom is increasingly seen as simply another government handout akin to food stamps and subsidized subway tokens. Attorney Gen. Janet Reno […]
Laurence Vance’s new book, The Free Society
At the Mises Institute conference in Auburn in March, Laurence Vance kindly gave me a copy of his latest book, The Free Society. Laurence is one of the hardest working writers I know, and this is his 27th book. Laurence is also the editor of the Classic Reprints series and the director of the Francis Wayland […]
July 4 Lesson: Fighting for Freedom is Winning
The lines above were inspired by this 1995 New York Times headline (which I clipped at the time & posted on my office wall) – As I wrote on this blog a year ago: On Independence Day, I salute all those folks who have fought and are fighting for liberty and refusing to submit to […]
My July 4, 1996 Hell-Raising Libertarian Convention Speech
On July 4 twenty-two years ago, I riled up folks at the Libertarian National Convention. I talked about the EEOC’s war on Hooters, House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s pig paranoia, zoning idiocy, and other boondoggles. Commenting on a recent idiotic asset forfeiture decision, I noted, “The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court did not explain the equivalency of piracy […]
MP3 FBI’s Latest Outrages on Scott Horton Show
My old friend Scott Horton and I had fun jibing the FBI for its recent pratfalls, outrages, and cover-ups on his show. These are hard times for J. Edgar Hoover’s boys and it will likely get worse. We talked about the Inspector General report on the FBI misconduct & other mysteries in the Clinton email […]
The Hill: Another State of Democracy Report Ignores Cause of Plummeting Trust
The Hill, June 29, 2018 Another ‘state of democracy’ report ignores real cause of plummeting trust by James Bovard The 937th report on the crisis of democracy in the Trump era was released Tuesday. Half of Americans polled believe that the U.S. is in “real danger of becoming a nondemocratic, authoritarian country” and two-thirds believe democracy is […]
Trotsky's Pickaxe
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Jim
There are still plenty of Germans who still highly
Shinmen Takezo
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