What do Merle Haggard, TSA, Covid crackdowns, & private property rights have in common? My Mises Institute summit speech finale from 2025 @ remastered
“The defects in any system of choosing and
anointing rulers outweigh the risks
of letting people run their own lives.”
What do Merle Haggard, TSA, Covid crackdowns, & private property rights have in common? My Mises Institute summit speech finale from 2025 @ remastered
UPDATE: 7,000+ views on Twitter/X & Facebook My Waco finale from the 1994 Second Amendment Rally at the Lincoln Memorial. “The federal government’s assault on gun owners is part of a general attack on the people’s rights and liberties.” Text: Here we are, barely a year after Waco, and when the federal reports […]
In 1990, I gave a speech denouncing foreign aid & the World Bank at a Santiago, Chile conference. Sifting chaos today & saw a packet of photos maybe for the first time. The organizers offered to pay me extra if I promised not to punish the audience by trying to speak Spanish. Here’s links to […]
Hearty thanks to Sandy Johnson Klein for her excellent intro for my Mises Institute spiel on Private Property, the Sacred Guardian of Individual Liberty. It was a joy to speak to such a savvy audience that instinctively understood the political villainies I thumped.
New York Post, February 8, 2023 Biden’s State of Union proves he’ll keep playing us for suckers By James Bovard Watching President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech was like being cornered by a drunken lout who endlessly yanks on your shirt sleeve and babbles about all the favors he’s going to do for […]
I spoke today at the Washington protest calling for freeing Julian Assange. It was a tough audience for Biden jokes. Big thanks to Ford Fischer /News2Share for making this excellent video of today’s event – it is far better than the 4 hour YouTube video of today’s event. I wasn’t expecting to be called to […]
Biden’s speech in Philadelphia was mostly recycled riffs, most of which were inaccurate or overheated the first time around. Here’s my live commentary via Twitter – Biden calling for hope and political unity. Last week he denounced Republicans for "semi-fascism." — James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 2, 2022 How do Biden supporters reconcile his "Rule of […]