Author Archive | Jim

The clash between Russia and Georgia is the conflict of two thuggish, authoritarian governments.   The American media seems to usually forget that it was Georgia that launched the attack. The conflict is highlighting the lunacy of McCain’s warmongering instincts. Mr. McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was until recently a lobbyist for the government […]

This is floating around the Internet; LawHobbit sent it to me, and it is too good not to post. If anyone knows the original source, let me know and I will properly credit it. **** The George W Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages. The Library will include: The Hurricane Katrina Room, […]

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today an article of mine from the May issue of Freedom Daily.  Without further adieu…. ELLSBERG’S LESSONS FOR OUR TIME by James Bovard Daniel Ellsberg is the kind of American who should receive a Medal of Freedom. Except that the Medals of Freedom are distributed by presidents who […]

Scott Horton of Antiwar.com RADIO and I chatted about FISA and other obscenities on Tuesday.  The MP3 is now online and accessible here. Scott came up with a zippety title for the interview – “Attention Deficit Police State.” Scott was spooked when I told him the FBI has added skateboarding as a warning sign for its latest updates to […]

Kent Snyder, the head of Ron Paul’s Liberty Study Committee and Ron’s right-hand man for much of the last 20 years, passed away last week. I first recall meeting him when he invited me to talk to a regular dinner that congressman Paul held for fellow-minded members of Congress in the late 1990s.   Kent was […]