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Champion talk show hell-raiser Scott Horton<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and I had a rowdy time on his radio show<\/strong><\/a> a few weeks ago\u00a0discussing Public Policy Hooligan<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Scott emailed me his thoughts on the book yesterday:\u00a0 “James Bovard’s work has been officially condemned by the leaders of virtually every federal government agency and political hack of every stripe. They hate him simply for telling the truth about them. Now in Public Policy Hooligan<\/em> we find out the truth about Jim: all the devotion to his craft and great adventures that made him the Leviathan slayer that we all know and love today. It’s really funny too.”<\/p>\n

Thanks, Scott!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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