Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News’s Freedom Watch interviewed me on my article on the post 9/11 roundup of innocent terrorist suspects. The video – under the “Heavy Hand of Government” segment – is available here.
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My Paranoia Vindicated – Gahan Wilson
“When did you first become aware of this imagined ‘plot to get you?’” Or, as they said after Ruby Ridge, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they are not out to get you.” Gahan Wilson (no relation to Ruby Ridge) has a new 3 volume collection of his Playboy cartoons hot off the […]
Civility, 2007-Style: Hanging George Bush
Some people who are outraged by anti-Obama placards have forgotten that, only a few years ago, many people were condemning George Bush in terms as harsh or harsher. Here is a picture I took at an antiwar rally in Washington in January 2007. The sign – “What’s good for the goose….. gandar” – refers to […]
Brian Wilson Deposes Mayor of Toledo
Talk show host Brian Wilson toppled Toledo’s Mayor-for-Life Carly Finkbeiner today. Another career politician bites the dust – thanks to the hard work and dogged activism of one of the nation’s most talented talk show hosts. Wilson has hammered Finkbeiner for the last three years as a talk show host at WSPD and was a […]
Bluegrass Festival: Danny Paisley & Southern Grass, Etc.
I caught the “Bluegrass on the Farm” festival in Derwood, Maryland on Saturday. Danny Paisley and Southern Grass put on two magnificent performances. Paisley and his band are nominated for 4 awards this year from the International Bluegrass Music Association. Rain made the audience sparse, but Paisley and crew performed at a fever pitch regardless. […]
The Post 9/11 Round-up of Innocents: Ashcroft’s High Crime
The Post–9/11 Roundup of Innocents by James Bovard Freedom Daily May & June, 2009 Many Americans have been lulled into a false sense of security by the end of the George W. Bush administration. In reality, the government continues to pose grave perils to people’s rights and liberties. And it could take only one shocking […]
Obama and his “Leavening Hand”
Obama’s health care pitch on Wednesday night contained the usual howlers. One of the biggest hoots of the evening came in this riff – “Our predecessors understood… that the danger of too much government is matched by the perils of too little; that that without the leavening hand of wise policy, markets can crash, monopolies […]
Jim Bovard
At least democracy promotion still provides full e
William Anderson
Wash, rinse, repeat. Wash, rinse, repeat. This is
R R Schoettker
What a fitting symbol for the 250th anniversary of
Currin Snipes
I just discovered your moving tribute to Doug toda