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New York Times: Bankrupt Environmentalism (1985)

On this date in 1985, the New York Times published my “Bankrupt Environmentalism” op-ed. That piece raised a ruckus and was reprinted in the Times’ 20th Anniversary round-up of epic-or-memorabe-or-whatever Op-eds in 1990.  The pervasive waste of the Superfund program foreshadowed the far more ruinous disasters of Biden’s Green New Deal. Robert Semple was a […]

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My 1996 Speech at Stanford Univ. on Lost Rights and Government Tyranny

My 1996 speech on Lost Rights & Government Tyranny at the Stanford University Hoover Institute. I discussed asset forfeiture outrages, zoning tyranny, affirmative action absurdities, Ruby Ridge and Waco, and all-round federal oppression.  Here’s a link to my 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, discussed in this speech.

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