Washington Times, August 27, 2014 Eric Holder’s Police Shooting Hypocrisy by James Bovard There are no Ferguson-style probes when black police shoot blacks Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is enjoying a tidal wave of laudatory press coverage for his activism on the Ferguson, Mo., shooting and subsequent protests. In the 1990s, though, Mr. […]
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9/11 Commission: 10th Anniversary of a Bootlicking National Disgrace
Ten years ago, the 9/11 Commission released its report on the challenges to the nation. Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, the chairman and vice chairman of the commission, have a platitude-laden piece this morning in USA Today: “The “generational challenge” against terrorism we anticipated 10 years ago has entered a new and dangerous phase. America cannot […]
My 2000 Playboy Article on Militarizing SWAT Teams
The New York Times has a good story today headlined, “War Gear Flows to Police Departments.” Unfortunately, this nonsense has been going on for decades. Playboy published a piece I wrote in 2000 on the militarization of SWAT teams. The article includes a discussion of Waco and the 1999 high school shootings in Littleton, Colorado. […]
My Wash. Times Op-Ed: Obama’s Toxic Secrecy-Censorship Combo
Washington Times, June 5, 2014 Caught between secrecy and censorship Americans need a free press to tell them when the Constitution is trampled by James Bovard Last Monday, the Supreme Court provided invaluable aid to the Obama administration’s campaign to hide evidence of federal abuses from Americans. The court acceded to the administration’s appeal and […]
Obama’s Latest Democracy Sham Anti-Gun Charade
From the July edition of FFF‘s Future of Freedom – Obama’s Latest Democracy Sham by James Bovard In his campaign earlier this year to subvert the Second Amendment, Barack Obama unveiled one of the oldest tricks in the demagogue playbook. Speaking in Colorado, he scoffed at Americans who say, “I need a gun to protect […]
Wash. Times: The ‘You Are the Government’ Canard
 Washington Times, April 15, 2013 BOVARD: The ‘you are the government’ canard Obama joins predecessors in blaming his overreach on us by James Bovard In his continuing campaign to subvert the Second Amendment, President Obama recently unveiled one of the oldest tricks in the demagogue playbook. Speaking in Colorado, he declared that since America is […]
Claire Wolfe Reviews Public Policy Hooligan
The hell-raising, freedom-fighting legend Claire Wolfe has reviewed Public Policy Hooligan. I greatly appreciate her kind words for the book. Claire mentions (accurately) that the book shows a “healthy ego” –  hopefully not quite as large as Lance Armstrong’s. 🙂 Claire’s review is here and reposted below.  Claire’s Living Freedom is the most thoughtful libertarian blog […]
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