I had a lively chat yesterday with conservative firebrand and former Hollywood star Janine Turner on her Houston KPRC (and XM/Sirius) radio show. She wanted to hash out the Wall Street Journal piece on the IRS, and we had fun jibing at Congress. Well, at least I did. I got the hunch that Janine’s confidence in [...]
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Will Congressional Republicans Ever Be Worth A Damn For Freedom?
The American Conservative posted online today my review of Jim Antle’s zippety new book, Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?. Antle recognizes the peril of Leviathan and is fairly optimistic on what Republicans can become and achieve. Here are a few of my lines from the review – which is posted in its [...]
My Wall St Jrn op-ed: IRS Political Targeting Since FDR
Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2013 A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting One survey found that 75% of IRS respondents felt entitled to deceive or lie to Congress. By JAMES BOVARD Many Republicans are enraged over revelations in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups with a campaign of audits [...]
America Needs Fewer Laws, Not More Prisons -Lost Rights
Congress is finally paying attention to the choking profusion of federal criminal laws. The House Committee on the Judiciary Over-Criminalization Task Force of 2013 will be launched this week, seeking to pare back the federal criminal code. The Wall Street Journal, which has had an excellent series of reports on this problem in recent years, notes, [...]
Your Tax Dollars at Work and Play
I’m sitting here filling out my IRS Form 1040 and just realized that I’m suffering from a severe deficit of idealism. To rectify that defect, I re-read this op-ed I wrote in 2011…. Washington Times, April 14, 2011 Uncle Sam’s big plans for your hard-earned tax dollars by James Bovard Congratulations – your tax payment [...]
Jim’s New Book
Jim's Other Books
- Attention Deficit Democracy
- The Bush Betrayal
- 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
- Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
- Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
- The Fair Trade Fraud
- The Farm Fiasco
Jim
Happily, I have found other ways to show my disdai
Andrew Rogers
Oh, I don't know. Someone once wrote (I think
Bill Jones
So this clown acknowledges that the govt has a lon
Tom Blanton
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