James Bovard

The New York Civil Liberties Union is plastering these great Drone posters on New York City telephone booths etc. Maybe drones will be used against people who persist in drinking Super-Sized Diet Cokes. Hopefully there will be a clean JPEG of the poster online soon. (not sure of the original source for this photo).   […]

George W. Bush has lots of time for clearing brush these days…. [great cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker]

This Candorville cartoon strip is the best capture of modern politics I have seen by any cartoonist all year. Kudos to Darrin Bell.

Thomas Szasz, the great Hungarian champion of freedom, has passed away. Tom was one of the great heroes of liberty of the past half century. His work had severed the chains on so many wrongfully incarcerated people. Tom was also one libertarian who did not cast half his principles overboard after 9/11. He will be […]

From the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily – How Roosevelt’s Farm Policy Paved the Way for Obamacare by James Bovard The Obama administration invoked a 1942 Supreme Court agricultural-policy case to justify its sweeping health- care law compelling individual Americans to purchase health insurance. The role of Wickard v. Filburn in sanctifying Obamacare is […]

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a turkey shoot today discussing the Republican and Democratic conventions. You can listen to the 20 minute interview by downloading or clicking on the following – bovard-brian-wilson-gop-dem-conventions-9-06-2012

It is unfortunate that impose this great Penn Jillette quote has not been superimposed as a background image on all the speeches from the Republican and Democratic national conventions.