The Tom Woods Show, episode 431.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

Welcome, everybody, Tom Woods here.

Talking to James Beauvard today about the TSA. You think you know all about the fiasco that is the

TSA, but I'm telling you, chances are you don't know the half of it. And Jim Bovard is particularly

well-placed to tell us all about it. Jim is an investigative journalist. He's the author of

10 books. He's written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New Republic, Readers Digest, and many other publications. He's been denounced by all different agencies of the U.S. government. We'll talk about that between this episode and the next time we talk to Jim Bovard in the not too distant future. I'm going to have him back on to talk about that between this episode and the next time we talk to Jim Beauvard in the not too

distant future. I'm going to have him back on to talk about his memoir, Public Policy Hooligan.

He is the author, among other books, of terrorism and tyranny, trampling freedom, justice, and peace to

rid the world of evil, feeling your pain, the explosion and abuse of government power in the Clinton Gore years, and lost rights, the destruction of American liberty.

Jim Bovard, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me on, Tom.

I read your article in USA Today not long ago, and having

recently read your book Public Policy Hooligan, which will have you on sometime in the near

future to talk about, I know that you've had this perch at USA Today, this ability to write

editorials in USA Today. That will, of course, be hotly contradicted by somebody respectable

at USA Today since the 1980s, and you continue to put it to good effect. The article title here

is TSA has no excuse to continue the groping, and then they've given a sort of a subtitle,

thieving agents, racial profiling, and excessive

pat-downs haven't made us safer. And the article starts by saying that the former TSA chief

actually attacked one of your articles, calling it misleading, inaccurate, and it unfairly

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