Author Archive | Jim

Abolish the Postal Monopoly

from the March issue of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily… ABOLISH THE POSTAL MONOPOLY by James Bovard Since the 1840s, it has been a federal crime to provide better mail service than Uncle Sam chooses to provide. The Postal Service has a monopoly on first-class mail delivery (with a limited exemption for urgent, […]

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Obama’s Devastating Disability Hiring Quota

from today’s Washington Times…. Obama’s devastating disability-hiring quota Federal favor for unqualified workers is another blow to struggling business by James Bovard The Washington Times Wednesday, June 6, 2012 [Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times] Political appointees at President Obama’s Labor Department are getting ready to issue an edict compelling government contractors to […]

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TSA’s Sordid Record in a Zippety Chart

This chart nicely illustrates some of the costs of the TSA. I suppose a chart that showed TSA’s full costs would be fairly obscene. But if you have seen such a chart – shoot me a line or post a comment here. This chart was posted at http://www.onlinecriminaljusticedegree.com/tsa-waste/. I assume they produced the chart – […]

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Wash. Post Excited by New DC Think Tank Leaders

The Washington Post has a long piece today gushing over the “new generation of think tank leaders.” DC think tanks have been wildly overrated – at least as far as their intellectual impact – for at least 15 years. Here’s a piece I wrote in 2006 for the Globalist on the failure of DC think […]

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FBI: “A Stasi for America”

Following is a review essay I wrote for the American Conservative – A Stasi for America By James Bovard A ripple of protest swept across the Internet in late March after the disclosure that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was teaching its agents that “the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law […]

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