The Future of Freedom Foundation put online today the speeches from their  June conference.  You can watch them here.    My topic was “Bush’s War on Civil Liberties.” I had wanted to do an even-handed treatment of the issue but there were time limitations, so… The same webpage has links to the videos of the other […]
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269 And Trying Harder
I want to heartily thank all the folks who have perused here or linked here in the past few months. Wikio compiles a ranking of English language political blogs. The latest Wikio ranking is now posted on the upper left hand corner of this blog. Thanks to y’all, this blog came in at 269 in the latest […]
Introduction from TERRORISM & TYRANNY (2003)
Since September is “Book Introduction” month, I figure I should send this chapter for another lap around the track. The final paragraph of the chapter asks: “What are the prospects for the survival of American liberty from an endless war against an elusive, often ill-defined enemy?” Funny to think back how some people reacted in 2003 to […]
Palin Revives Bush’s Most Lethal Lie
In a speech yesterday to U.S. troops departing for Iraq, Alaska Governor and GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin declared that the soldiers would “defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.” Even George W. Bush finally admitted that this justification for attacking Iraq […]
Introduction from FREEDOM IN CHAINS (1999)
Here’s another flash from the past.  Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen  was hell on my moderate image.  Curious how the intellectual battle lines have shifted in the decade since I wrote this book. I recall some reviewers denouncing me as an extremist for focusing on government abuses such […]
McCain Achieves a Miracle
 John McCain performed a miracle tonight. He made Bob Dole’s 1996 Republican presidential acceptance speech look downright eloquent. Shizam, McCain’s performance – at least for the first 40 minutes of the speech – made Bob Dole sound the combination of Daniel Webster, John F. Kennedy, and Cicero thrown in for good measure. McCain seemed to […]
Flemishly Damned Again?
I much appreciate the Belgian website In Flanders Fields posting the text of the Freeman article on torture. I was amused at some of the comments, though I’d be prevaricating if I said I was more fluent in Flemish than in Swahili. Here are the comments the piece has so far generated on this European […]
Boris Bathwait
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Donald Dalton Jr
Pure Evil through and through!!!
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Jim Bovard
The former #1 radio DJ in NYC has bad news for Yon
Brian Wilson
CAPTCHA snipped the lead:
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