News came out this week that a libertarian activist in the Philadelphia area has turned government informant and set up fellow freedom activists with drug busts. C4SS announced that they were terminating their association with the woman. Claire Wolfe has an excellent analysis of the controversy here. I have written about government informants over the […]
From the February issue of Freedom Daily, posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation – TSA — Tenth Anniversary of a National Nightmare by James Bovard Less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush promised Americans, “We will not surrender our freedom to travel.” In hindsight, he may have been […]
WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rowdy time today discussing wine (he eschews brown bags) and the federal panel crafting a national index for Subjective Well Being. You can listen or download the MP3 by clicking on the following link – bovard-brian-wilson-show-5-10-2012-happiness-index-wine The interview lasted about 14 minutes.
Bad news from this cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker. This is going to be hell on online discussions.
My piece in Monday’s Wall Street Journal on one of the more ludicrous recent efforts to redefine reality… Wall Street Journal Don’t Worry (About GDP), Be Happy With the economy slow and joblessness high, the feds want a new way to measure well-being. by James Bovard In recent years, numerous experts have declaimed that the […]
Congratulations, Secret Service! No brawls with whores during Obama’s whistle-stop in Kabul. OK, it wasn’t an overnight visit… * It was inspiring to hear Obama invoking the usual idealism during his spiel from Bagram Air Base. The event was nicely managed insofar as there were no blood-piercing screams during his speech from detainees being tortured. […]
Jim
Thanks for the plug for Tyranny Unmasked.
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Bjorn Frei
The quote is from, Tyranny Unmasked. A book writt
Sean
Political hell it is, and all aboard! If anybody w
