The Libertarian Party of Ohio (www.lpo.org) held their annual convention last weekend in Worthington, Ohio. I was there for a Saturday night spiel, and it was a treat to meet so many folks gung-ho to fight for freedom. Many of their activists had a fervor about them which I rarely see inside the Beltway. The […]
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The Missing Miranda Warning for your Census Form
from the April 12, 2010 issue of the New Yorker
The National Endowment for Democracy’s Kyrgyzstan Legacy
This is a photo of an undercover policeman kicking the head of a Kyrgyz demonstrator this week. The National Endowment for Democracy and the Bush adminsitration were proud of their role in the uprising that led to the current government taking power in Kyrgyzstan. Maybe the Endowment’s apologists will claim that the demonstrator is […]
The Bush Secrecy Legacy
from the January issue of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily…. The Bush Secrecy Legacy Freedom Daily January 2010 by James Bovard Many Americans assumed that the Bush administration’s peril to their freedom ended when George Bush exited the White House on January 20, 2009. Unfortunately, the precedents the administration established continue to threaten […]
Claire Wolfe’s Zesty New Freedom-Fighting Blog
Great News for Freedom: Claire Wolfe, one of America’s most eloquent and principled political writers, is again blogging. She is posting her thoughts on a near-daily basis at the Backwoods Home blog site here. Claire’s first book, 101 Things to Do Until the Revolution , quickly became a cult classic. No wonder, with zippety lines […]
“Lost Rights” Editor Simon Winder Has New Book Out….
Simon Winder has a new book out – Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History – which is garnering rave reviews in top British papers, including the London Times and the Telegraph. I have not seen the book, but the reviews indicate that the work beautifully captures the breadth and richness of […]
Podcast of Census Show with Brian Wilson
WSPD talk show host and renowned hellraiser Brian Wilson had me on his program yesterday. We did our best to restore people’s faith in the privacy/confidentiality of their Census responses… unless, of course, politicians decide they don’t like you or your group. The podcast is here:jpb-radio-brian-wilson-show-3-25-2010. To listen to it, right click and….
Jim
Yep... federal judges and appeals courts have elo
R R Schoettker
That this grotesquely obscene practice wasn’t sh
Tennessee Budd
You forgot the lie of 1861. Some Americans, seeing