James Bovard

  Three years ago, I conveyed the sad tidings that my favorite pilsner beer would no longer be exported from Germany to the United States.  Fellow DinkelAcker enthusiast Jon Notz alerted me earlier this week that he had learned that DA would soon commence exporting again to the U.S.  An email from DA’s export director, […]

A federal judge has entitled the Obama administration to lie about killing Americans. This is the assured result of a recent ruling permitting continued secrecy about Obama’s assassination program.  Judge Colleen McMahon bewailed the “veritable Catch-22” of rules that permit the Obama administration to declare legal “actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution […]

Champion talk show hell-raiser Scott Horton and I had a rowdy time on his radio show a few weeks ago discussing Public Policy Hooligan.  Scott emailed me his thoughts on the book yesterday:  “James Bovard’s work has been officially condemned by the leaders of virtually every federal government agency and political hack of every stripe. They hate […]

Claire Wolfe has rolled out RATS –  a short book with great advice on how to protect yourself from informants, sting operations, narcs, and similar damn rascals. RATS is the rare book that is both passionate and thoughtful. Claire, with suggestions from folks who comment on her excellent blog, wove together a step by step self-defense […]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323530404578207621700492206.html December 31, 2012 How the ‘Dairy Cliff’ Will Cream Consumers Got milk? Enjoy the price you paid, because federal policy, reaching its sell-by date, will have dire results.   By JAMES BOVARD If the price of milk zooms up shortly after Jan. 1, the increase will come courtesy of a venal and feckless U.S. […]

Only a fool would expect members of Congress to give a damn about his rights and liberties. That’s the lesson from today’s Senate floor debate on extending the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans under FISA.

I’m doing a little whittling on the cover drawing for Public Policy Hooligan. I was in a beer store a few days ago and was awestruck by the following label: However, the hat is wrong. Plus, that tongue flopping out probably doesn’t convey the right tone for the book. So here’s the latest rough version […]