[photo from the New York Times] “First They Came for the Teachers… and I Didn’t Speak Up.” Does it get any deeper? Hell, if you went to public school, you probably can’t string together ten lines of coherent points on why teacher unions are not a pox on the school. Here is a link to […]
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Obama Advisor Sunstein’s Peril to Freedom
from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (November 2010) Obama Advisor Sunstein’s Peril to Freedom by James Bovard Cass Sunstein is the chief of the Obama administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. As Salon’s Glenn Greenwald noted earlier this year, Sunstein “has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants.” His values are […]
Video – My CPAC Patriot Act Bash (and Jacob Hornberger’s Speech)
FFF “Repeal the PATRIOT Act!” Roundtable from CPAC 2011 from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo. Here’s the video from Saturday’s CPAC forum, sponsored by Campaign for Liberty. Ivan Eland did an excellent job of moderating. My speech was probably about 15 minutes. Hornberger followed and gave the best speech I have ever seen […]
Video – Me & Jacob Hornberger Thumping Conservative Statists
Jacob Hornberger Show from CPAC 2011 with James Bovard from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo. From the Future of Freedom Foundation: This edition of the Jacob Hornberger Show was recorded at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 11, 2011. Jacob and special guest James Bovard discuss “Why Do Conservatives Support Statism?” The […]
Trashing the Patriot Act at CPAC
Christian Gomez of the New American wrote an excellent article on the Patriot Act bashing during CPAC. Here’s a few outtakes from his piecedealing with my spiel at CPAC on Saturday: Bovard started his speech by asking the audience: “I’d like to know how many people in this room have had their phone calls wiretapped […]
Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies
… posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation Freedom Daily October 2010 Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies by James Bovard It seems like a century since Bill Clinton was president of this country. Unfortunately, the abuses of George W. Bush and the pratfalls of Barack Obama are causing many people to raise their estimate […]
My “Holy Shit!” Rumsfeld Response Unfit to Print
Michael Tennant emailed me on Saturday to get my response to the news that Donald Rumsfeld would be receiving the “Defender of the Constitution” award at CPAC. He has a very good article at The New American website with quotes from a number of libertarians and conservatives bashing the award. Tennant notes that my “two-word […]
