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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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Video: How I Busted the Ruby Ridge Coverup

Update: Almost 50,000 views for this video on Twitter/X On June 30, 1995, I helped shatter the coverup of federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. I got hold of a 542 page confidential Justice Department and wrote a Wall Street Journal piece exposing the official lies on the FBI killing of Vicki Weaver as she […]

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The Growing IRS Dictatorship – Wall Street Journal 1994

On Tax Day 2026, remember that the IRS was unleashed long ago.   Here’s a piece of mine published on April 14, 1994 – Wall Street Journal  -The Growing IRS Dictatorship By James Bovard A Gallup Poll released last week found that two-thirds of Americans believe that the Internal Revenue Service abuses its power. Yet few […]

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Our Train Trip to Political Hell

Our Train Trip to Political Hell by James Bovard, Mises Institute, March 23, 2026 A recent Facebook memory notice reminded me of when I was young and naïve and full of political hope. Okay, maybe I wasn’t full of political hope but at least I wasn’t as old at the end of the last century. […]

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