http://jimbovard.com/blog Author James Bovard Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:07:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Anti-TSA activist Ken Krawchuk caught me on film at last year's Maryland Libertarian Party convention responding to his question about the great TSA boycott that he, Jim Babb, and others organized in late 2010. They did a superb job - that was probably the worst PR drubbing the ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2012/02/07/my-endorsement-of-wewontflycom/ I came across this transcript this morning and figured it was worth sending around the track one more time. You can watch the video from this interview here - Brian Lamb's views come through more clearly on tape than in the transcript. One of my favorite comments he ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2012/02/03/c-span-booknotes-terrorism-tyranny-2003-transcript/ The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today this article from the November issue of Freedom Daily - The EEOC’s Forgotten Racial Racketeering by James Bovard Few federal agencies have a more brazen history of trampling due process and basic fairness than the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. From the time the EEOC ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2012/02/02/eeocs-forgotten-racial-racketeering/ My two cents on the latest humbug from Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke: In an interview with Press TV on Thursday, James Bovard, a policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation explained that U.S. Federal Reserve policies are further hurting the U.S. economy rather than improving it. “The Federal Reserve itself ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2012/02/02/the-fed-is-wrecking-our-economy/ The Young Americans for Liberty and the Future of Freedom Foundation will be putting on a college tour next week on "The War on Terrorism, Civil Liberties, and the Constitution." FFF president Jacob Hornberger will be joined by best-selling author Glenn Greenwald and former Reagan Justice Department official Bruce Fein for ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2012/01/31/next-week-fffhornberger-on-civil-liberties-college-tour/ Karen Kwiatkowski, an author and retired Air Force Lt. Col., is running for Congress in Virginia's Sixth District. Beginning in 2003, Kwiatkowski exposed the shenanigans she had seen in the Pentagon leading up to the invasion of Iraq. She has shown more courage than an entire 747 full of laptop ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2012/01/31/karen-kwiatkowski-for-congress-go-virginia/ Dipping into my books, I plucked out some of my favorite lines. FWIW: From The Farm Fiasco (ICS Press, 1989) * For sixty years, politicians have driven American farmers out of world markets and onto the government dole. *Nineteenth-century reformers built their utopias on the expectation of an imminent change ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2012/01/14/epigrams-from-my-sordid-past/ Following is a piece I wrote in 1987 on the Reagan administration's idiotic intervention in the Persian Gulf. Versions of this piece appeared in USA Today and the Detroit News. JUST ANOTHER AMERICAN SITTING DUCK by James Bovard ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2012/01/05/persian-gulf-folly-redux-1987/ Listening to the half-witted ratcheting up of hostilities by both the U.S. and Iranian governments reminded me of this piece I wrote for the Future of Freedom Foundation in the wake of George W. Bush's Iraq victory speech. It is difficult to detect a learning curve in Washington in the ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2012/01/05/the-folly-of-attacking-iran/ As someone who was born in Iowa, I'm pleased to see many Iowans flocking to support Ron Paul. The Washington Post has a tut-tutting front-page story today complaining that Paul's 45-minute stump speech "outlines a view of the world so bleak it would make Chicken Little sound like an optimist." It ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2012/01/02/ron-paul-toppling-political-idols-and-changing-american-politics/ The headline was the opening sentence of a letter written to the Los Angeles Times. The writer, Jim Washburn, was so upset that the Times clipped that first sentence from his published response that he posted it on his blog. He commented: "A few days previous, they'd run an op-ed ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2011/12/28/was-james-bovard-bit-by-a-mailman-as-a-child/ Brian Wilson and I had some fun this morning on Dallas station KLIF. I am waiting for the defamation lawsuits to arrive from the city of Boston and from the Postal Service. You can download or listen to the show by clicking the following: 12-27-11-invu http://jimbovard.com/blog/2011/12/27/mp3-of-dallas-interview-on-santa-postal-snafus-etc-with-brian-wilson/ Future of Freedom Foundation Freedom Daily, October 2011 (posted online 12/23/11) Obama’s Dictatorial Assassination Program by James Bovard The Obama administration now claims the authority to kill American citizens without a trial, without notice, and without any chance for targets to legally object. The “targeted killing” program of George W. Bush’s administration ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2011/12/27/obamas-dictatorial-assassination-program/ I will be on the air with guest talk show host Brian Wilson on Dallas's KLIF radio this morning at 10 a.m. Eastern time. You can listen on the air at AM 570 in parts of Texas or listen live online by clicking here and tapping the Listen Live button. ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2011/12/27/listen-live-on-dallas-radio-with-brian-wilson-10-am-eastern-tuesday-12-27/ < from Thursday's Wall Street Journal editorial page- Confessions of a One-Season Santa by James Bovard When I asked one girl what she wanted for Christmas, she gritted her teeth: 'I want you to leave.' In the fall of 1977, I moved to Boston seeking literary triumphs and intellectual stimulation. As ... http://jimbovard.com/blog/2011/12/21/wall-street-journal-confessions-of-a-one-season-santa-claus/