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LIFE magazine has put its photo collection online, searchable by Google. There is a gold mine of photos here from the battle over school integration in Front Royal, Virginia in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Most of the online photos are not yet identified. Are there other good online resources of the end of […]

  Another classic from Oliphant…. The question from the little kid on the left side – – “Mommy – is politics a trick or treat?” – – if only more adults thought to frame the issue that way….

The Campaign for Liberty reposted my FFF article on “De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty.” The first comment, from last4ever from Salisbury, MD, was tell-tale: [quotes from my article in italics; his rebuttal is non-italicized] “The combination of ignorant voters and conniving politicians is far more likely to ruin than to rescue this nation.” (Duh!, your […]

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

I’ll be on the Lou Dobbs Show today at 4:09 pm (Eastern time) talking about the latest Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) debacle. [UPDATED WITH THE TIME CHANGE]

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 […]