Future of Freedom Foundation TSA Treats Americans like Gitmo Detainees by James Bovard If you use hand sanitizer when traveling, the Transportation Security Administration can badger you as if you were a terrorist suspect. The TSA is the biggest hassle most Americans will encounter when they fly. I learned that first-hand while flying home […]
Hillary’s pratfall at the 9/11 memorial service yesterday spurred this daily cartoon in the New Yorker – And here’s a few of my tweets on this topic – So @HillaryClinton was only doing an Ali-style "Rope-a-Dope" fake on 9/11? "Alert the whole time" sez spokesman https://t.co/TWT5bpw4Zl — James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 12, 2016 Any […]
Future of Freedom Foundation Bipartisan Battering of Freedom by James Bovard For more than 40 years, Republicans have been promising to cut federal spending. In the same period, federal outlays have inched up by a few trillion dollars. But the Grand Old Party continues singing the same song — though voters may finally be losing […]
If Qadaffi had given $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, he might still be alive & @HillaryClinton would have better chance at winning — James Bovard (@JimBovard) August 20, 2016 .@HillaryClinton will need more fundraising $ to pay all her trolls in WPost comments on latest 15,000 email scandal https://t.co/TxY0v6Xlpl — James Bovard (@JimBovard) August […]
Washington Times, August 26, 2016 Politicians and Peanut Pilfering by James Bovard The peanut program is typical of the train wreck of farm subsidies The history of federal peanut policy is the perfect antidote to anyone who still believes that Congress could competently manage a lemonade stand. Federal spending for peanut subsidies will rise eight-fold […]
Barron’s, August 20, 2016 Farmers Should Farm for a Living by James Bovard And politicians should stop dishing out the pork. The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts that spending for federal farm-commodity programs will increase eightfold from 2015 to 2017. Since the 1930s, Congress has rarely missed a chance to shower rural America with more […]
My ol’ buddy Claire Wolfe has a zesty new blog here. Claire has done some of the best writing on freedom since her bestselling 1996 book, 101 Things to Do ‘Til the Revolution. Claire is hardline and very savvy on firearms and freedom – and plenty of other issues. She updates her blog much more […]
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