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James Bovard

Rockville, Washington, D.C.
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Author of Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty & 10 other books. Articles at @nypost @latimes @wsj @nyt @Usatoday Bd of Contributors amazn.so/M7UGzcq

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James Bovard is a USA Today columnist and the author of ten books, including Public Policy Hooligan (2012), Attention Deficit Democracy (2006), The Bush Betrayal (2004), and Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994). He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader's Digest, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean.

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"James Bovard has become the roving inspector general of the modern State." Wall Street Journal

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Dear Texas, how many times do we have to rebuild the same house? (You're next Florida)

Dear Texas, how many times do we have to rebuild the same house? (You're next Florida)

CLOSE The 'flood-build-repeat' model, so popular among re-election-seeking members of Congress, must come to …

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Ruby Ridge lessons for fighting right-wing extremism

Ruby Ridge lessons for fighting right-wing extremism

CLOSE When the government tries to squash anti-American ideas it doesn't like, the results are often destruct…

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Hey, guess what? Donald Trump has a good foreign policy idea

Hey, guess what? Donald Trump has a good foreign policy idea

CLOSE Let's get our own house in order before we start imposing democracy on others. The Trump administration…

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TSA justifies pat downs with op-eds - is my paper trail to blame?

TSA justifies pat downs with op-eds - is my paper trail to blame?

Americans love to grouse about the Transportation Security Agency. I have caterwauled as loudly as anyone ove…

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Trump's Boy Scout speech may have set kids on the right path

Trump's Boy Scout speech may have set kids on the right path

CLOSE President Trump telling Boy Scouts that Washington is a "sewer" could actually be an antidote to much o…

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My Ruby Ridge videos get 70,000 views

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By James Bovard
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By on Thanks to everyone who viewed, commented on, or reposted my Ruby Ridge videos I posted on Facebook and Twitter/X the last few days. The number of views on my posts is almost 70,000.
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1572: My Ancestors Were Massacred in Paris

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By James Bovard
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On this day in 1572, French Catholics slaughtered thirty thousand Protestants (known as Huguenots) in the streets of Paris. The French king and the pope helped organize the the biggest religious massacre in Europe in the 1500s. Roughly half the Bovards living in Paris were killed in the bloodbath. Three surviving Bovards fled past drunken guards at Paris’s city gates, raced to the coast, hijacked a rowboat, and made it across the English Channel and took refuge in London.
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Presidential Entitlement to Kill: the 1998 Bombing of Sudan

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By James Bovard
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By James Bovard Last week was the 28th anniversary of the U.S. government bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Freelancing in late 1970s, sales to The Freeman, Boston Globe, and New York Times Op-Ed

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. I was a Kelly Girl.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Wordperfect