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I recall that Bovard used to have a column in The American Spectator in its glory days along with Mark Steyn, Tom Bethell, Richard Grenier, etc. It's sad that he's gone off the deep end into Lew Rockwell loony-libertarian-land.

From a legitimately arguable statement like

the "Department of Defense has become the most powerful force for freedom the world has ever seen."

Bovard extrapolates a bizarre conclusion that belief in the previous statement must also mean that

...if the government seized all of every citizen's paycheck...and used all the revenue to bankroll foreign military conquests, Americans would have absolute freedom.

And as the phrase goes, that's the kind of logic that isn't. Paleo-libertarians are despicable human beings; I'll take an avowed socialist over one anyday, because, news flash, paleo-libertarians aren't really interested in freedom. They hate their country too much for that.

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Here's everything you'll ever want to know about JIM BOVARD complete with recommendations by his 'followers' and fans.

His articles regularly appear on the sourced article's website: Ron Paul's son is Chairman of the Board. LOL.