Washington Times, April 15, 2011 Uncle Sam’s big plans for your hard-earned tax dollars by James Bovard Congratulations – your tax payment is probably your biggest purchase of the year. The federal tax burden now amounts to more than $20,000 per household, according to Internal Revenue Service data. Your contribution to the Treasury coffers will […]
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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 […]
Why the Tea Party Should Despise George W. Bush
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today this article from the September issue of Freedom Daily – (also on Counterpunch) Why the Tea Party Should Despise George W. Bush by James Bovard The Tea Party movement is challenging politicians and political establishments in many parts of this country. Many Tea Party supporters define themselves […]
TSA Boarhawgs America: Washington Post Cartoon
Another excellent cartoon from Tom Toles of the Washington Post… Here is a link to a great collection of 26 anti-TSA cartoons from the Daily Bail
My Antiwar.com Radio Interview on “Assassin Nation”
Antiwar.com’s Scott Horton and I had a rollicking good chat regarding “Assassin Nation” – the Obama administration’s right to kill Americans. You can listen to the MP3 by clicking on this 10_12_06_bovard
TSA Misses the Biggest Bomb in the Land
from Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles’s Sketchpad today – At a time when the White House and Homeland Security are yammering about how the TSA needs to squeeze our butts for our own good, the feds are screwing the economy with enough deficit spending to wreck practically everyone’s future. Or at least wreck the […]
TSA: Attitude Fines for Complaining About Being Molested
The Transportation Security Administration has a long history of stretching power far past the bounds of sense of decency. This 2008 piece from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily exposes the perils of a bad atttiude at the airport.. Freedom Daily, June 2008 Federal Attitude Police by James Bovard The Transportation Security Administration has […]