The elites’ absurd Davos crusade: Destroy freedom to save humanity James Bovard Who would have guessed freedom of speech would become the biggest barrier to saving humanity? Luckily, a fix is pending from the billionaires, political poohbahs and other weasels attending this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. WEF has two big goals this […]
28 years ago today, the FBI launched a tank and toxic gas assault on the Branch Davidians that ended with 80 dead civilians. I spoke Saturday night to the Maryland Libertarian Party convention. Here is my riff from that speech on how Biden slapped a halo on the ATF and FBI after the Waco debacle […]
Mises Institute, March 12, 2021 One Year Later: The Police Still Won’t Come Clean on Duncan Lemp’s Death by James Bovard At 4:42 a.m. on this day a year ago [Friday, March 12], a Montgomery County SWAT team arrived outside of the bedroom where 21-year-old Duncan Lemp slept next to his pregnant girlfriend in his […]
Radio hellraiser-in-chief Scott Horton talked to me today about my American Conservative article on the SWAT team killing of Duncan Lemp. The Montgomery County Police Department have released no more details on why they launched a violent 4:30 a.m. attack on Lemp’s home that left him dead. Dudes, nobody is forgetting or moving on. You […]
On Saturday, I gave a talk at the Pennsylvania Libertarian Party state convention. There were so many great folks there and it was a pleasure to speak to a savvy, friendly audience. Richard Schwarz did a pitch-perfect introduction that set the tone for the talk. It’s hard not to like a guy who is always […]
Future of Freedom Foundation, October 2014 issue of Future of Freedom AMERICANS’ FADING LOVE OF FREEDOM by James Bovard Tea Party protesters, some Republicans, and many libertarians perceive the federal government as a vast engine of oppression. But are anti-Obama activists mistaken in presuming that most Americans still care about freedom? A Gallup poll released […]
Claire Wolfe is one of the finest freedom writers around. She has a knack for making freedom both vivid and fun. She has a new novel entitled Hardyville Tales – When ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ meets ‘For Your Own Good.’ The book is based in part on the hugely-popular series of internet columns Claire has […]
