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Iowa Radio Show Postponed till Monday (1/30) 10 am

Just got a call from Jan Mickleson – the radio show scheduled for today is postponed until 10 am (Eastern time) on Monday.  This gives me the weekend to study up on Iowa politics. Maybe I can discover a deeper meaning behind Tom Harkin’s vacuous grin.

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Wisconsin interview posted online

The hour long interview with Joy Cardin is also already on her archive page.  You can listen by clicking in at http://www.wpr.org/webcasting/ideas_audioarchives.cfm?Code=jca A listener to the program told me that it would also be re-broadcast over the web later this evening but I am not sure about that.    

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Speaking in New York City on Saturday Night

I will be speaking at the Manhattan Libertarian Convention on Saturday evening, January 21.   This is part of the LP’s annual conference  – being held at the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant at 140 Second Ave.   Should be lots of fun.  I have never seen libertarians eat Ukrainian cuisine before.

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Fear & Servitude

The Washington Post has an excellent front page story on the boarhawging of Mohammed Yousry, the court-appointed translator for lawyer Lynne Stewart. Federal prosecutors spent three years wiretapping his phone and reading all the files on his computer, thanks to a FISA warrant. Even a federal prosecutor conceded: “Yousry is not a practicing Muslim. He […]

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Thanks to Will Grigg & the New American

Will Grigg, the editor-in-chief of the New American, wrote a very kind review of Attention Deficit Democracy. I appreciate his bovine humor, since it goes back to my roots.   “Spectacular… Attention Deficit Democracy displays Bovard’s emergence as a formidable prose stylist. Relentlessly incisive and epigrammatic, Bovard at his best reminds me of Nock and […]

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