The great libertarian talk show host Brian Wilson has written the definitive rebuttal of the Toledo Blade’s attacks on his earlier this month. You can read his demolition of the Blade here, at the Toledo Free Press. Brian has done damn fine hell-raising ever since he arrived in at WSPD in Toledo, and this latest […]
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Three Cheers for Egyptians and for Al Jazeera!
It is great to see so many people with the courage to risk all defying a corrupt, oppressive government. It is great to see the party headquarters of a corrupt regime going up in flames. And it is great to see American politicians squirming as the authoritarian tool they have bankrolled for 30 years totters […]
My 2 Cents on Obama’s State of the Union Address
The following riff is part of an American Conservative forum on Obama’s speech. ****** The State of the Union address has long since become “hip boot” time. Shortly after the speech finished, the CNN webpage showed a large photo of Obama giving the speech along with a brief outtake: “CNN BREAKING NEWS: ‘What Comes of […]
My Office Motto
[from the new issue of the New Yorker] Hell, if my office looked like a mausoleum like this one does, I’d be a negative thinker, too. Geez, did this guy have a zombie design his office? There are no cigar butts, no pair of pliers to adjust the chair, no stack of empty Remington ammo […]
Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy
From January 2011, my American Conservative review of Derek Leebaert’s Magic and Mayhem. Worst and Brightest Review of Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan, Derek Leebaert, Simon & Schuster, 336 pages By James Bovard In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign-policy experts have become Washington’s leading […]
Brian Wilson’s Latest Knockout in Toledo
Toledo is best known in sports history as the location where Jack Dempsey won the heavyweight title by a knockout back in 1919. This past week saw another knockout – this one self-inflicted by the Toledo Blade in its clumsy attempts to smear talk show host Brian Wilson. Wilson effectively toppled Toledo’s Mayor-for-Life Carly Finkbeiner […]
The Right to Resist Government
The good folks at the Foundation for Economic Education reposted an article this week that I wrote for The Freeman back in 2000. Here’s my hat tip to moderation….. The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty //http://www.thefreemanonline.org The Right of Resistance by James Bovard • August 2000 • Vol. 50/Issue 8 James Bovard is the author […]
