Notorious freedom writer & hell-raiser Claire Wolfe just posted a very generous review of Public Policy Hooligan on Amazon And he really is a hooligan, too. 😉 By Claire Wolfe “freedom writer” Jim Bovard has written an amazingly cheerful memoir of how he went from being a good, authority-respecting Boy Scout to being the bane […]
It is always painful for me to admit that I was wrong.  But maybe  I was mistaken to be skeptical about Sen. Rand Paul’s recent assertion during a Fox News interview: “If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don’t care if a Drone […]
Sen. Rand Paul did great work focusing America’s attention on drone killings last month during his filibuster. I was surprised to learn today that Sen. Paul endorses using drones to kill suspected liquor store robbers: “If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash I don’t care […]
Twenty years ago today, the FBI assaulted and demolished the Branch Davidians’ home outside of Waco, Texas. Â That assault and the subsequent coverups helped redefine the relation of the federal government to the American people. I wrote about the attack in several books and in articles for the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Times, […]
After years of hearing about how federal agencies believe that the warning signs of  a domestic terrorist include people who are gung-ho for the Second Amendment, or who are contemptuous of Congress, and even folks who get perturbed at waiting in grocery store lines – there is a new terrorist warning sign of which I […]
To celebrate Income Tax Week, the New Yorker is having a cartoon caption contest. Submit your entries here. I have not yet thought of any caption that would be even only half-obscene. Maybe I’ll come back to this after I finish up with my 1040.
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today an article I did for them was printed in the January issue of The Future of Freedom. Here are a few of the punchier lines: * Members of Congress will always prefer imaginary budget cuts as long as government spending gives them real power. * The more […]
Geoffrey Britain
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Jim
Ms. Podojil, thanks very much for your kind words
catherine podojil
Mr. Bovard,
Thank you for laying it all out so
Jim
thanks very much!
Rich Weyhe
Incredibly well written and informative.
