This is the 454th anniversary of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, when the French king and Pope ordered Catholics to slaughter tens of thousands of Protestants (known as Huguenots) in Paris and elsewhere in France. That was the largest religious massacre in Europe in the 1500s. Queen Margot, a 1994 French film, captures some of […]
Presidential Entitlement to Kill: The 1998 Bombing of Sudan By James Bovard Last week was the 28th anniversary of the U.S. government bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. Scott Horton, director of the Libertarian Institute, observed last week that that wanton assault by the Clinton administration “helped make a folk hero out of bin […]
On this day in 1989, the Wall Street Journal published my essay, “Honesty May Not be Your Best Census Policy.” I had worked as a census taker in Illinois in 1980. But I did penance. When the 1990 census came around, I was “laying for them,” as Mark Twain would say. I exposed how the […]
My 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes interview on my book, Terrorism & Tyranny” Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (St. Martin’s Press). Host Brian Lamb asked great questions and we managed to have a few laughs on the grim topic. Some excerpts: “Flattery ruins more politicians than sex.” “It is an old […]
From my 2003 Booknotes C-SPAN interview on Terrorism & Tyranny – The Future of Freedom Foundation was perhaps the only think tank not embarrassed by any link to me & my criticisms of the war on terror
Here’s two minutes of my spiel at an April 2005 debate including Pat Buchanan on civil liberties and the war on terrorism. I was hitting the themes from my book Terrorism and Tyranny (2003) and Bush Betrayal (2004).
OTD 34 years ago, I warned: “Pandering to protectionists is poisoning the North American Free Trade Agreement.” NAFTA’s managed trade squabbles sowed the seeds for future trade wars. Trump vindicated this article. Wall Street Journal, July 31, 1992: “Free trade is not complex; it does not require an army of bureaucrats to define and re-define […]
Joe Blow
You're partly right. Liberal college educated
R R Schoettker
Thanks Jim, I appreciate the link to the text.I pr
Jim
thanks for the prompt!
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R R Schoettker
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