James Bovard

The one certainty after last night’s debate is that we are going to have a lousy foreign policy for the next four years. Damn little learned from the debacles of the past dozen years – or the past 50 years. So was Romney doing his Herman Cain imitation last night? “America needs a leader, not […]

  This Non Sequitor cartoon has one suggestion on how to keep candidates honest tonight. What other methods might better highlight their falsehoods? The Onion had a great one-sentence summary of last week’s debate: “Nation Tunes In To See Which Sociopath More Likable This Time.” I could complain that the debates are driving me to […]

  This cartoon would be perfect if there was a drone launching a missile to blast Lady Liberty before she escaped and perhaps became either a militant or an extremist. (Excellent cartoon by Joel Pett)

  Lucky for me that this “loudest/most ignorant” rule doesn’t apply to blogs. [excellent cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker]

RIP – Sen. Arlen Specter, one of the heroes of Ruby Ridge. I intensely disagreed with many, if not most, of the positions that Arlen Specter took during his career. And as for the “magic bullet” of the JFK Warren Commission report – bah humbug. But Specter showed great courage in going up against the […]

  I bet the pollsters haven’t talked to those two guys yet. (cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker). On Twitter – @jimbovard

Jacob Hornberger, president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, will be speaking at colleges throughout the West next week. He is touring as part of a joint Young Americans for Liberty-FFF Civil Liberties College Tour.  He will be joined by author Glenn Greenwald and former Reagan Justice Department official Bruce Fein. All of the panelists are excellent […]