From an interview with Press TV earlier today – James Bovard, policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation in an interview with Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Tuesday said that “a lot of folks had high expectations from the congressional super committee to reduce the federal deficit. I figured it would be a fraud […]
Nature of the State Revealed in One Minute 39 Seconds
The police response to the nonviolent protests at the University of California Davis is a stark lesson of how much abuse some government officials feel entitled to inflict on anyone who does not kowtow. Watching this video, I wonder how much more violence the police would have inflicted if they had been confident that they […]
Zdenka Bartz, R.I.P.
I got a phone call from my old friend John Bartz a few days ago informing me of the sad news that his wife Zdenka had passed away. Zdenka was visiting western Europe at the time the Soviet military crushed the “Prague Spring” in 1968. Rather than return behind the Iron Curtain, she came to […]
TSA: Tenth Anniversary of a National Nuisance
The Transportation Security Administration is celebrating its tenth anniversary this week. Perhaps they can uncork an extra bottle of champagne to toast the hundreds of thousands of jobs they destroyed by making travel far more onerous for Americans. I have been flogging this agency since 2003. Here is a link to my blog entries on […]
Memorial Day Reflections and Revisionism
from the August issue of Freedom Daily (posted online last week) Memorial Day Reflections and Revisionism by James Bovard, On Memorial Day, the media do their usual sacralizing of war. Instead, it should be a day for the ritualized scourging of politicians. During the last 60 years, their lies have resulted in the unnecessary deaths […]
Veterans Day: Remembering The Nature of War and Politicians
Veterans Day was originally Armistice Day, pegged to the end of the First World War. Unfortunately, almost all the lies that propelled that war have been lost in the Memory Bank. The following 8 minute video is a potent reminder on both the nature of war and the nature of politicians who send men to […]
Christmas Tree Tax: Bum Rap for Obama, Probably
So the Obama administration is trying to destroy Christmas with a new tax on Christmas trees? Bah humbug. I’m pro-Christmas and pro-Christmas tree, but this hubbub looks like a red herring. The 15 cent per tree tax (to fund promotional efforts and industry bureaucrats) is the same type of surtax that USDA-empowered committees have been […]
