My USA TODAY oped on the Deep State spurred plenty of zippety responses, including the humorous Twitter quip below. I replied, “No sweat. Casual attire will be fine.” Jeff Scott commented: “I assume there will be a band. And food.” I replied, “Bluegrass & BBQ would be appropriate but it is too soon to book […]
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Democracy – More Than Two Wolves and a Sheep Voting for Dinner Around the World
One sentence from Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (St. Martin’s Press, 1994) received far more mileage than I expected. “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner” has been translated into 48 languages, quoted by the Hong Kong Chief Justice, and set the […]
Bashing Politicians and Re-fighting the Civil War on the Gold Standard Podcast
Back on the The Gold Standard with Alan Mosley – a raucous hour fest paying tribute to Walter Jones, remembering Civil War atrocities, flogging the Green New Deal, and castigating politicians of all parties & stripes. The show ends with the Tennessee version of a Monty Python conundrum. The interview starts about 9 minutes into […]
Podcast: My Train Trip to Communist Hell
Millennials like Communism?!? I was vaccinated against it when I traveled to Romania, dodging secret agent hookers, surly clerks, and gullible guards with machine guns. I avoided arrest and whacked hell out of the regime in the New York Times after I returned. Two years later, an uprising ended with the execution of the country’s […]
“Why Washington Never Learns” – Full Version of My Mises Institute Speech
The Mises Institute has now posted a full version of my speech from last week’s conference. Here we go…
Waco Revisited – Podcast with Brian Wilson’s Libertas Media
My old friend Brian Wilson and I had a pleasant palaver about the 1993 federal attacks at Waco today on his Libertas Media “Judging Freedom” podcast. OK, Waco wasn’t pleasant but there is plenty of comic relief – including an appearance of the “Magic Bullet” from the 1963 Kennedy assassination. Happily, this was an audio […]
FFF: Homeland Security Multibillion Dollar Comedy Show
Future of Freedom Foundation Homeland Security’s Multibillion-Dollar Comedy Show by James Bovard After the 9/11 attacks, Congress and the Bush administration pretended that unlimited federal spending was one of the best ways to thwart terrorist threats. In 2002, Congress created the Homeland Security Department (DHS), sweeping some of the most inept federal agencies, such as […]