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Scott Horton’s Greatest Waco Hits

Scott Horton’s Greatest Waco Hits by Jim Bovard | Apr 19, 2023 Thirty years ago, Waco radicalized a teenage grocery clerk in Austin, Texas. Scott Horton was horrified both by the televised carnage of the FBI assault and by the mindless support for the feds he heard voiced by suburban housewives. Unlike the national media, […]

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30 Years Later, Waco is Still Damning

30 Years Later, Waco is Still Damning by Jim Bovard | Apr 18, 2023 Thirty years ago, FBI tanks smashed into the ramshackle home of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. After the FBI collapsed much of the building atop the residents, a fire erupted and 76 corpses were dug out of the rubble. Unfortunately, […]

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Remembering Waco Atrocities with the Scott Horton Show

From the ScottHortonShow.com website: Jim Bovard is back on the show to discuss the Federal Government’s siege at Waco thirty years ago. Scott and Bovard reflect on how they both first learned about the story. Bovard then goes through his experience reporting on the government’s evolving PR campaign to avoid blame for committing mass murder […]

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Pro-Censorship Democrats Whitewash the Federal Iron Fist

Pro-Censorship Democrats Whitewash the Federal Government’s Iron Fist by Jim Bovard | Mar 13, 2023 The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing last Thursday on the Twitter Files. Elon Musk purchased Twitter last October and was aghast to learn how the feds had previously domineered his new company. “Twitter […]

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Congressional Conniptions, FBI Perfidy, and Zaxby’s Chicken on the Brian Wilson Podcast

from the Something Completely Different website: “This week, Brian and Jim discuss Congressional Committee hearings, leading to memories of Janet Reno, Waco, the first World Trade Center bombing, governmental responsibility, the Fed… and fast food.” At the end of the podcast, Brian Wilson touted my Public Policy Hooligan as an “action-romance thriller.” I scoffed: “Not […]

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New York Post: Disastrous Waco raid 30 years ago still fuels extremism

New York Post, February 28, 2023 Disastrous Waco raid 30 years ago still fuels extremism by James Bovard In his “V for Vendetta” raging September speech in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden denounced “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” His Department of Homeland Security and FBI are ramping up crackdowns on “domestic […]

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My Speech to Maryland Libertarian Party – Full Version

Here’s the full 39 minutes of my speech and Q and A to the Libertarian Party of Maryland convention on April 17. The audio tape includes the zesty question and answer period, at least until the police arrived and shut down the show.  I start by thanking Maryland libertarians for being stalwart on the killing […]

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