{"id":4877,"date":"2013-03-20T15:39:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2013-03-20T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T20:40:26","slug":"public-policy-hooligan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/20\/public-policy-hooligan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Policy Hooligan Hooped on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hearty thanks to economist <strong>Greg Ransom<\/strong>, the mastermind of the<a href=\"http:\/\/hayekcenter.org\/\"> Hayek Center<\/a>, and to Irish farmer, writer, and freedom advocate<a href=\"http:\/\/thickerthantalk.blogspot.com\/\"> Paddy Manning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>The journalist I&#8217;ve always admired most, James Bovard, has written his remarkable &amp; unlikely life story Kindle $6.95 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/jnNVczCK1Z\" title=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00AKZH97W\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00AKZH97W&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=takihayeseri-20\">amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TakingHayekSeriously (@FriedrichHayek) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedrichHayek\/status\/314197702747504640\">March 20, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>finished Public Policy Hooligan by James Bovard, great journey into recent America, big recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/EJmg2yj4gh\" title=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/YpMdzA\">amzn.to\/YpMdzA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash;Paddy Manning (@PaddyJManning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaddyJManning\/status\/314193619672264704\">March 20, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Just go follow @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimbovard\">jimbovard<\/a>, the guy was exposing bloat &amp; spending since the 80s, tea party before the kettle boiled -and he can write!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash;Paddy Manning (@PaddyJManning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaddyJManning\/status\/314173975603339266\">March 20, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearty thanks to economist Greg Ransom, the mastermind of the Hayek Center, and to Irish farmer, writer, and freedom advocate Paddy Manning. The journalist I&#8217;ve always admired most, James Bovard, has written his remarkable &amp; unlikely life story Kindle $6.95 amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00\u2026 &mdash; TakingHayekSeriously (@FriedrichHayek) March 20, 2013 finished Public Policy Hooligan by James Bovard, great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,123,125],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freedom","tag-public-policy-hooligan","tag-public-policy-hooligan-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Public Policy Hooligan Hooped on Twitter - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/20\/public-policy-hooligan-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public Policy Hooligan Hooped on Twitter - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hearty thanks to economist Greg Ransom, the mastermind of the Hayek Center, and to Irish farmer, writer, and freedom advocate Paddy Manning. 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