I have always wondered why TSA screeners seem to target me (especially after I cuss ’em a bit). Now I realize that I have to buy new luggage to allay Official Fears. OK, maybe I could also try to stop radiating sedition. But that is practically the only redeeming fun when flying nowadays. Admittedly, I have […]
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MP3 of UCLA Radio Bloop Interview on Various Political Damn Outrages
I was interviewed by Dr. Know for the UCLA Radio “Bloop” show last night. Dr. Know was very well-prepared – he had actually read a couple of my books – which meant that he was truly a prodigy by talk show standards. We had fun bantering on various political crimes and indecencies. Here’s his […]
My Easter Rabbit Domestic Terrorist Training Gig
OK, I wasn’t an Easter Rabbit. I was a Beatrix Potter promotion rabbit. But rabbits are rabbits dammit. And as Attorney General John Ashcroft always said, “terror is terror.” The following is from the section of “Playing Left Field in Boston” chapter of Public Policy Hooligan on the various jobs I did to pay the rent. That chapter uses […]
Waco: FBI Final Assault 21 Years Ago Today
Twenty-one years ago today, the FBI assaulted and demolished the Branch Davidians’ home outside of Waco, Texas. That assault and the subsequent coverups helped redefine the relation of the federal government to the American people. Millions of citizens never looked at Washington the same afterwards. I reposted some of the articles I did in […]
MP3 of Scott Horton Radio Show on Cluster Bomb Congress
Libertarian hardline hell-raiser talk show host Scott Horton and I had a rattlin’ good chat yesterday on his radio show about the Cluster Bomb Congress article, asset forfeiture, police brutality, and a couple other damn outrages. Being on Scott’s show always vaccinates me against my moderate tendencies. You can download or listen to the show by […]
Wash. Times: Our Cluster Bomb Congress Plants Legislative IEDs
BOVARD Our cluster-bomb Congress plants legislative IEDs Arcane laws lie dormant until exploding under unsuspecting Americans by James Bovard Tens of thousands of Americans have been bushwhacked by a single arcane sentence in a 673-page law Congress enacted six years ago. The Internal Revenue Service is seizing both federal and state tax refunds for individuals […]
20 Years Ago: The Growing IRS Dictatorship (Wall Street Journal)
The IRS did not start its mischief recently. Here’s a piece of mine published on April 14, 1994 – Wall Street Journal -The Growing IRS Dictatorship By James Bovard A Gallup Poll released last week found that two-thirds of Americans believe that the Internal Revenue Service abuses its power. Yet few people realize exactly how […]
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Jim Bovard
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