Hal O'Boyle
Hal O'Boyle fled New England in the seventies for Key West, Florida. He settled there because the road ended and local legend had it that large, sodden bales of marijuana floated up onto the public beaches at night. The bale tales were greatly exaggerated, forcing him into business to secure reliable supplies of pizza, beer, and bullets.
He spent thirty years in Key West ending up, like everyone else, in the real estate business. In 2005 he moved to San Jose, Costa Rica, where he now lives with his wife, two teen aged sons, mother-in-law and three big, muddy dogs.
When not home schooling the boys, he writes his provocative, refreshingly incorrect observations of government, society, politics and culture.
He is the author of "Democracy: The Painted Whore, an Extremist Explains War, Drugs, Guns, God, Gold and Santa Claus"
Enjoy the spectacle and folly of the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the War on Education, the War on Privacy, the War on Anonymity, the War on Common Sense and the War in Iraq from the comfort of your own barstool or Lay-Z-Boy.
Buy your copy before DHS bans it. It makes a better gift than a bottle of cheap hooch and you can always say you thought it was a guide to New York brothels.
You can buy a copy here: Democracy The Painted Whore
He spent thirty years in Key West ending up, like everyone else, in the real estate business. In 2005 he moved to San Jose, Costa Rica, where he now lives with his wife, two teen aged sons, mother-in-law and three big, muddy dogs.
When not home schooling the boys, he writes his provocative, refreshingly incorrect observations of government, society, politics and culture.
He is the author of "Democracy: The Painted Whore, an Extremist Explains War, Drugs, Guns, God, Gold and Santa Claus"
Enjoy the spectacle and folly of the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the War on Education, the War on Privacy, the War on Anonymity, the War on Common Sense and the War in Iraq from the comfort of your own barstool or Lay-Z-Boy.
Buy your copy before DHS bans it. It makes a better gift than a bottle of cheap hooch and you can always say you thought it was a guide to New York brothels.
You can buy a copy here: Democracy The Painted Whore
Articles by Hal O'Boyle
March 14, 2009
What a better and safer place the world would be if only the Fed chairman were even more powerful than he is now.
October 09, 2008
The problem is too much debt that can never be repaid. The solution is not more debt.
August 27, 2008
Our government's use of Man's Best Friend in its assault on harmless people with bad habits abuses the rights of every American, but even more it abuses the special relationship we have to these noble animals.
August 24, 2008
It's come down to which war mongering Marxist we would prefer to have occupying the White House. We still have other choices, and since it matters little which socialist actually wins, why not strike a blow for constitutional government and liberty?
August 17, 2008
The means to fix the wobbling U.S. economy and the doomed U.S. dollar are already in place ready to serve us as they have in the past. We need only respect the law and insist that our leaders honor their oaths of office.
July 15, 2008
The Revolutionary War Verterans Association is keeping alive American traditions of rifle marksmanship, patriotism, and knowedge of history. A report from one of their Boot Camps in Ramseur, North Carolina.
May 10, 2008
Cheerful prison guards only make it harder to realize you are in prison.
May 09, 2008
Fascism can't exist without a host of legal tools for the fascists to use. To see the whole toolbox on display, one need only visit an airport.
January 09, 2008
"It is just as well that the people don't understand money and banking for, if they did, I believe there would be an armed revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company
Like many history making events, this one went almost unnoticed by the media. If there was an...
January 08, 2008
Bomber McCain recently said he would be fine with keeping U.S. troops in Iraq for 100 years or more. Except for Ron Paul, all the career politicians currently running for president, while mouthing token opposition to war, agree with McCain to a greater or lesser extent. They embrace the War on Terro...
January 06, 2008
Gabrielle is 11 years old. She’s four and a half feet tall and doesn’t weigh much more than a couple sacks of groceries. Her black hair shines in the dim light of the dingy classroom as she nervously twirls it in the fingers of her right hand. Her eyes are almost black, the whites bright white; her ...
January 02, 2008
Ron Paul raised around $20 million in the last quarter. The only part of it I've heard about from the mainstream media is the $500 he got from the leader of a pathetic white supremacy group. (won't reward with a link) One of Fox's talking heads, Niel Cavuto, grilled Dr. Paul about it as if the good ...
December 21, 2007
On October 30 Atlanta jury found former IRS agent Sherry Jackson guilty of "willful failure to file tax returns." Ms. Jackson quit her job with the Service some years ago. Not long after, her own research as a CPA lead her to ask a lot of questions about the legitimacy of what she had been doing f...
December 20, 2007
America trudges down the road to imperial ruin like an ogre with a big stone hammer. I keep expecting the final pratfall, the step off the cliff into the void, the drop into the pit full of sharpened stakes, or just the steady banging of a great shaved head against a wall. But, of course, that’s not...
December 19, 2007
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." – Mahatma Gandhi
Is Ron Paul the Mohandas Gandhi of American politics? Gary North made a convincing case for it in an article he wrote for LewRockwell.com last summer. The Mahatma, the great self, was a non-violen...
December 19, 2007
Last week I was invited to a "Saturnalia." I had to look it up. Webster says "saturnalia" is a synonym for "orgy," which seems wildly optimistic for any soiree at which an overweight, bald geezer like me would be welcome. Either my invite was a careless mistake or I was really invited to a Christmas...
December 17, 2007
I’ve written before about the voting scam, about the delusions of power it gives to members of a well trained herd, about the lack of any real choice in most elections.
When PR hacks and hairstylists create the only differences between candidates, voting simply encourages the dissembling, grasp...
December 17, 2007
Remember Richard Reid? He is the British fruit cake who in 2001 tried to blow up a plane with explosives he had installed in one of his high-top sneakers. You’d think someone clever enough to design a shoe bomb would have known that you can’t detonate plastic explosive with a match. Dress rehearsal...
December 17, 2007
The Decider is trying to scare the crap out of us. The Leader of the Free World can hardly speak without saying something designed to scare me, scare you, scare our friends, our relatives and everybody we know.
Mr. Bush's public statements and, in fact, his entire career since 9/11 have been ded...
December 17, 2007
Always suspicious of being watched for my own protection I often wonder what everyday life in a police state might be like. Certainly we can gather nuggets of insight on a visit to an airport or courthouse, or enjoy a depressing civics lessons from any reasonably corrupt building department. But at ...
December 15, 2007
"Get 'em skeered and keep the skeer on 'em" – Lt. General Nathanial Bedford Forrest, CSA
I was reminded of Forrest's axiom of control through fear by a recent N.Y. Times story called "New Scrutiny of Remote Controlled Toys." The story has the look of rare inspiration by a Transportation Security ...
December 15, 2007
Ron Paul received an unexpected credibility boost in his presidential run when Senator John McCain dropped an "H-bomb" on him in last week's debates. Not a real H-bomb, of course, though Bomber John surely pines to have his finger on that trigger.
I refer here to the rhetorical H-bomb, the gratui...
December 14, 2007
Do you feel safer because of our War on Terror? Our leaders would like you to think you are and are making much of the fact that there hasn’t been a terrorist incident in the U.S. since 9/11. As politicians do, they are taking credit for the fact that so many of us are still shifting air in and out ...
December 14, 2007
Real estate is still a topic of great interest both here in Costa Rica and there in sunny Key West, where I spent so many good years and participated in a dizzying real estate run. As I am inclined to look back in time to satisfy my curiosity about the future, I found this graph interesting.(...
December 14, 2007
Following the tragedy at the New Life Church in Colorado many will try to make sense of senseless violence without looking at critical similarities and differences between apparently unrelated events. Unless we are willing to examine rationally two sensitive subjects, prescription drugs and guns, th...
December 12, 2007
A recent front page article in the Wall Street Journal reported a meeting between a group of bankers from the world's biggest banks and representatives of the U.S. Treasury Department. The meeting, we are told, is "in response to the world credit crisis." It purpose is to "avert a crunch."
Mark...
December 12, 2007
Inflation, diluting the money supply with worthless tokens, either by borrowing money into existence or by printing it, transfers wealth from the people who produce it to people who use it to buy political power. It's a nasty, pious fraud, but the real harm goes far beyond the immorality of simple t...