Author Archive | Jim

Pro Libertate: Independent, Unabashed, and Undaunted

Will Grigg is one of the hardest working pro-freedom bloggers in the business.  His Pro Libertate blog is consistently among the punchiest, pithiest, most penetrating takes on the perils of politicians.  He has a new blog entry on Sam Adams and the American Revolution that vivifies the danger of waiting until too late to resist oppression.  […]

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Bush’s Signing Statement Dictatorship

The fine folks at Future of Freedom Foundation posted today a piece I did on Bush’s endless nullifications of federal law. The longer he reigns, the more difficult it is to give Bush the benefit of the doubt. Bush’s Signing Statement Dictatorship by James Bovard, October 9, 2006 President Bush has once again decreed that […]

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The Washington Post’s Disgraceful Record on Ruby Ridge

The Washington Post weighed in on the death of former congresswoman Helen Chenoweth today.  The fact that Chenoweth harshly criticized the feds sealed her reputation, at least with the Post. The Post notes: “She also held hearings on ‘black helicopters,’ which militia members believed were filled with United Nations-sponsored storm troopers eager to swoop into […]

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Foley the One-Handed Warrior

ABC News revealed this afternoon that Foley was engaging in “Internet sex” with a teenage boy while Foley was voting for the Bush administration’s Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriation in 2003.   ABC reports: This message was dated April 2003, at approximately 7 p.m., … Maf54 [FOLEY]: I miss you Teen:   ya me too Maf54: we are still […]

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The 1995 Playboy article on Ruby Ridge

Here’s the piece on Ruby Ridge mentioned in the prior post. The article had magnificent artwork.  Unfortunately, I’m not adept at scanning and inserting the images into a blog. The article closes with the following questions:  “If Congress is not willing to look into such misconduct, who will protect the Constitution? Will Congress let the […]

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Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth, R.I.P.

Former congresswoman Helen Chenoweth died yesterday in a Nevada car crash. She was one of the most courageous members of Congress in the mid-late 1990s.  She  fought harder than any Idaho senator to find out the truth about the federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.  While Sen. Larry Craig was wishy-washy, hemming and hawing, Chenoweth was unflinching.  Obituaries mention that […]

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