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My 1996 Speech at Stanford Univ. on Lost Rights and Government Tyranny

My 1996 speech on Lost Rights & Government Tyranny at the Stanford University Hoover Institute. I discussed asset forfeiture outrages, zoning tyranny, affirmative action absurdities, Ruby Ridge and Waco, and all-round federal oppression.  Here’s a link to my 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, discussed in this speech.

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How I Busted the Ruby Ridge Coverup

How I Busted the Ruby Ridge coverup By James Bovard, June 30, 2026 On this day in 1995, I helped shatter the coverup of federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.  For millions of Americans, those brazen killings epitomized how the U.S. government had become a deadly peril to their rights and liberties. In 1991, an […]

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Notorious Hellraiser Gordon Liddy, R.I.P.

G. Gordon Liddy has passed away at the age of 90.  He achieved fame for his role in the Watergate break-in and later became one of the most informative radio hosts of the 1990s.   Liddy had a four hour show and he would routinely spend one hour reading articles out loud and adding his comments.  […]

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A Bushel of Laughs on the Ernie Hancock Radio Show

My old friend Ernie Hancock and I had a rowdy time this morn on his Freedoms Phoenix Radio Show. Ernie kindly asked for a summary of Public Policy Hooligan and I specified that most of the book does not involve people trying to stab me. Ernie asked about the scandal in my old hometown, Front […]

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