I had fun yesterday bantering with the guest host Dom Giordano on the Lou Dobbs Radio Show about DARE. We agreed to disagree on whether it was a good thing to put police on a pedestal… To hear the show, click on the MP3 here – the-lou-dobbs-show-james-bovard-10-19-10
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On Lou Dobbs Radio Show/Network Today (10/19) at 4:09 pm
I’ll be on the Lou Dobbs Show today at 4:09 pm (Eastern time) talking about the latest Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) debacle. [UPDATED WITH THE TIME CHANGE]
Me & Mother Jones: Libertarian or Rapper?
Mother Jones has an article in their September/October issue challenging readers to guess whether one-line quotes (or antics) are from Rappers or from libertarians. They used the first sentence of the last chapter of Lost Rights: “America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.” When I wrote that book, I guessed that the above line would […]
De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty
from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (July issue) – posted online today – De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty by James Bovard In the 1770s, the British colonists living in America won their freedom from British rule thanks to the
Exposed: The Federal Reserve’s Toxic Waste
from the new issue of The New Yorker
Mp3 of Interview with Brian Wilson Bashing Statism
Talk Show ace Brian Wilson and I had fun yesterday stomping the $%&@! out of Statism. The Tea Party also did some serious flak catching. You can hear the interview by clicking on the WSPD link here.
A Tea Party Bright Side: Making the Fed Sweat
It’s great that the Tea Party is making the Federal Reserve sweat…. The New York Times has a piece detailing how, thanks to Tea Party activists, one “likely outcome” of the November elections “is greater scrutiny of the Fed, even though the Wall Street regulatory overhaul that Mr. Obama signed in July already calls for […]