Author Archive | Jim

TSA: Three Cheers for National Opt-Out Day!

National Opt-Out Day is a great response to the TSA’s damned outrages. From the Opt-Out Day website: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 is NATIONAL OPT-OUT DAY! It’s the day ordinary citizens stand up for their rights, stand up for liberty, and protest the federal government’s desire to virtually strip us naked or submit to an “enhanced […]

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TSA Busted: Ron Paul’s Reform Legislation

Here is Ron Paul’s statement on HR 6416 Introducing the American Traveler Dignity Act Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation

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The Mark Twain Prize Debacle: Another Reason to De-Fund PBS

Tina Fey, the Saturday Night Live performer who deftly satirized Sarah Palin, recently received the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center in Washington. PBS broadcast much of the awards ceremony but deleted the most pointed paragraph in Fey’s acceptance speech in which she mock-praised “conservative women” such as Palin: “And, you know, politics aside, […]

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Statism, the Greatest Threat

From the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (August 2010 issue, posted online today…) Statism, the Greatest Threat by James Bovard Pervasive confusion over the nature of government and freedom has opened the gates to perhaps the greatest, most widespread increase in political power in history. If we are to regain and safeguard our liberty, […]

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