The National Park Service hosted events today to make the 154th anniversary of the battle of Fort Stephens in Washington, D.C. A Confederate army commanded by Jubal Early briefly entered the District of Columbia and skirmished before the Union fortifications before retreating. I will be writing more on this battle and campaign shortly. Mounted U.S. Park Police were […]
The American Conservative What the ‘Dumpster Fire’ D.C. Metro Says About Federal Bureaucracy City council just voted to impose a 500 percent tax hike on Uber and Lyft. Really? By James Bovard • July 10, 2018 The Washington D.C. Metro.(Credit: Thomas Hawk/Flickr/Creative Commons The District of Columbia Council voted in June to impose a […]
Here’s a C SPAN video from a 1996 speech at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Here are some outtakes: A lucid understanding of the nature of government is the first line of defense for individual freedom. Freedom is increasingly seen as simply another government handout akin to food stamps and subsidized subway tokens. Attorney Gen. Janet Reno […]
At the Mises Institute conference in Auburn in March, Laurence Vance kindly gave me a copy of his latest book, The Free Society. Laurence is one of the hardest working writers I know, and this is his 27th book. Laurence is also the editor of the Classic Reprints series and the director of the Francis Wayland […]
The lines above were inspired by this 1995 New York Times headline (which I clipped at the time & posted on my office wall) – As I wrote on this blog a year ago: On Independence Day, I salute all those folks who have fought and are fighting for liberty and refusing to submit to […]
On July 4 twenty-two years ago, I riled up folks at the Libertarian National Convention. I talked about the EEOC’s war on Hooters, House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s pig paranoia, zoning idiocy, and other boondoggles. Commenting on a recent idiotic asset forfeiture decision, I noted, “The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court did not explain the equivalency of piracy […]
My old friend Scott Horton and I had fun jibing the FBI for its recent pratfalls, outrages, and cover-ups on his show. These are hard times for J. Edgar Hoover’s boys and it will likely get worse. We talked about the Inspector General report on the FBI misconduct & other mysteries in the Clinton email […]
