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MP3 of my Lou Dobbs Radio Show interview on DARE

I had fun yesterday bantering with the guest host Dom Giordano on the Lou Dobbs Radio Show about DARE. We agreed to disagree on whether it was a good thing to put police on a pedestal… To hear the show, click on the MP3 here – the-lou-dobbs-show-james-bovard-10-19-10

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Me & Mother Jones: Libertarian or Rapper?

Mother Jones has an article in their September/October issue challenging readers to guess whether one-line quotes (or antics) are from Rappers or from libertarians. They used the first sentence of the last chapter of Lost Rights: “America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.” When I wrote that book, I guessed that the above line would […]

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Uncle Sam’s Devotion to American Soldiers

  The above cartoon is from Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles’ sketchbook today. Folks should photocopy this cartoon and pass it around audiences when politicians give speeches prattling about their devotions to those “who made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation”…..

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