From my 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes Interview with Brian Lamb: “So when you go through that TSA checkpoint, you don’t feel any safer? Bovard: “No, I don’t feel any safer. The chance of me being arrested are a lot higher than they were before 9/11.”
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9/11 at 25: The Patriot Act and Total Surveillance – My 2003 Booknotes Interview
After the 9/11 attacks, Congress rushed to enact the Patriot Act, vastly expanding federal surveillance of American citizens. The Patriot Act Pandora’s Box has unleashed far more attacks on Americans’ privacy, rights, and liberties than the feds have admitted.
25 Years After 9/11: My 2003 Booknotes interview on George W. Bush Lies About Receiving Warnings on Terrorist Attacks
On 25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks – Never forget how President George W. Bush & his top officials lied and denied that the FBI and CIA had not received clear warnings of a pending terrorist attacks
World War II, the “No Good” War
World War II, the ‘No Good’ War by Jim Bovard | Sep 1, 2026 September 1 is the anniversary of the start of World War II in Europe. On that date in 1939, Nazi Germany launched an invasion of Poland from the west and a few weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. […]
Video on Trump Censorship Machine Bashed in Federal Court
Video spurred by my Mises Institute article here
Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court
VIDEO VERSION OF THIS STORY HERE Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court by James Bovard, August 31, 2026 The Trump administration’s crusade to crush campus criticism took another wallop on Friday in a California courtroom. Federal judge Noël Wise ruled that the Trump administration’s “ideological-deportation policy” brazenly violated the U.S. Constitution. The Stanford […]
Charlotte Twight, R.I.P.
Economics professor Charlotte Twight passed away this past week. She was a courageous and principled opponent of the federal abuse of power across the board. Her training as a lawyer was a huge asset in her analyses of the rascalities of federal agencies. I exchanged some emails with her over the decades but didn’t have […]
R R Schoettker
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
Jim
Montaigne also wrote: Laws remain in credit not be
Alan Strange
Great video, visited there a few years back to pay