Author Archive | Jim

Trashing the Patriot Act at CPAC

Christian Gomez of the New American wrote an excellent article on the Patriot Act bashing during CPAC. Here’s a few outtakes from his piecedealing with my spiel at CPAC on Saturday: Bovard started his speech by asking the audience: “I’d like to know how many people in this room have had their phone calls wiretapped […]

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MP3 of My CPAC interview with WSPD’s Brian Wilson

WSPD’s Brian Wilson – a great libertarian radio host – hell, a great radio host per se – is at CPAC this week helping keep an eye on all the damn rascal politicians. He interviewed me and Jacob Hornberger, the chief of the Future of Freedom Foundation, this afternoon. On Egypt, I got to work […]

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Egypt: One Bastard Down….

…. more to go. Congratulations to the Egyptian people for toppling their tyrant. Keep fighting! I hope the protestors can capture the government bulidings and make public the files that detail the torture and other atrocities. And as far as US govt officials – “What did they know and when did they know it?”

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Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies

… posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation Freedom Daily October 2010 Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies by James Bovard It seems like a century since Bill Clinton was president of this country. Unfortunately, the abuses of George W. Bush and the pratfalls of Barack Obama are causing many people to raise their estimate […]

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My “Holy Shit!” Rumsfeld Response Unfit to Print

Michael Tennant emailed me on Saturday to get my response to the news that Donald Rumsfeld would be receiving the “Defender of the Constitution” award at CPAC. He has a very good article at The New American website with quotes from a number of libertarians and conservatives bashing the award. Tennant notes that my “two-word […]

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