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Thursday 19th April 2012
OFCCP Chief Denies Imposing Hiring Quotas
11:12 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
OFCCP chief Patricia Shiu responded to my attack on her agency in the Wall Street Journal. Shiu denies that the agency seeks to impose hiring quotas for the disabled. But the agency has always denied that it imposed racial and gender quotas - and federal contractors know that that is a load of [...]
Wednesday 18th April 2012
My “Secret Service Experience” in Communist Romania
7:20 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 4
My heart goes out to those Secret Service agents who got caught whoring in Colombia. Okay, that’s an overstatement. But I hear this is the kind of thorny predicament that can happen to anyone who is overpaid and possesses a top secret security clearance.
I have pretty well avoided both those albatrosses, but I [...]
Dilbert Champions Justice for Editors
2:48 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
I’ve dealt with some excellent editors over the years… and then there have been the others.
The only thing that could have made this cartoon better is if there had been one more panel showing Dilbert bouncing the crumpled paper off the would-be editor’s forehead.
Tuesday 17th April 2012
Tax Day: An Archaic Cartoon from the New Yorker
9:57 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 3
This 1971 New Yorker cartoon captures the essence of taxation - except that the notion of the gunman saying “I’m sorry” seems utterly out-of-date.
What would be the correct image and posture for the IRS in 2012?
Monday 16th April 2012
America’s Long History of Entrapment Insanity
12:56 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
From the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily - January issue –
The Long History of Entrapment Insanity
by James Bovard
America has seen a profusion of entrapment schemes in recent years. Many of the most high-profile domestic-terrorism cases have been ginned up by FBI agents who preyed on persons who had little competence for creating perils [...]
Our Previous Four-Star Hypocrisy in Colombia
10:31 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
The whoring Secret Service agents made President Obama’s visit to Colombia even more embarrassing. Prior to the G-men stiffing a hooker for her fees, the big issue at the hemispheric summit was the revolt of Latin American governments against the U.S. drug war. Much of the American media coverage on this [...]
Friday 13th April 2012
Finally: A Latin American Revolt on the U.S. Drug War
12:11 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
This weekend’s hemispheric summit in Colombia could spark an open revolt against the U.S. drug war. It is most encouraging to see Latin American leaders finally declaring their independence against this disastrous policy.
I have been barking at this particular moon for a long time. Below are a few pieces I did on the [...]
Thursday 12th April 2012
MP3 Podcast of My Interview with Brian Wilson Today
9:17 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rowdy chat today on Obama’s proposed 7% hiring quota for disabled job applicants. (More details available from the story in Monday’s Wall Street Journal).
Brian’s laugh was in fine form - as it always is on the day before his vacation starts.
You can listen to the @ 15 [...]
Sunday 8th April 2012
Wall Street Journal: Obama’s New Disability Hiring Quota
8:42 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 6
Wall Street Journal April 9, 2012
The Wrong Way to Help the Disabled
A 7% hiring quota for government contractors is unfair and unwise.
By JAMES BOVARD
The Obama administration is on the verge of compelling most of the largest corporations and universities, as well as many smaller businesses, to adopt a 7% hiring [...]
Friday 6th April 2012
The Great Gold Robbery
12:15 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
The Foundation for Economic Education reposted a 1999 article I wrote for them as today’s “Timely Classic” from the Freeman archive. This article was a spinoff of Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (St. Martin’s Press, 1999). Once more around the track:
Freeman [...]
Tuesday 3rd April 2012
95th Anniversary of Horrendous American Wrong Turn: World War One
12:24 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
Yesterday was the 95th anniversary of President Wilson’s address to Congress calling for a declaration of war against Germany. The U.S. entry into the war opened a Pandora’s Box that still plagues America and much of the world. One of the war’s clearest lessons: Lies are lies, regardless of whether the liar promises to [...]
Monday 2nd April 2012
The Most Painful Pentagon Void?
2:13 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
Unfortunately, this zippety P.C. Vey cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker may soon be out of date….
Wednesday 28th March 2012
Los Angeles Times: Ludicrious Constitutional Linchpin for ObamaCare
8:52 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 11
Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2012
Op-Ed
First wheat, now healthcare
A Supreme Court ruling on New Deal farm policies has relevance today.
By James Bovard
The Obama administration is relying heavily on a 1942 Supreme Court case to sway today’s justices as they consider the constitutionality of compelling Americans to buy health insurance. The 1942 ruling, in Wickard vs. [...]
Bashing the Federal Reserve and the Sinking Dollar
4:47 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
From an interview with Press TV:
James Bovard, policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation says the U.S. currency “has lost 90 percent of its value” since the early 1900s when the Federal Reserve was created.
It is understandable that foreign nations are now “leery” of the dollar and are shifting away from the [...]
Tuesday 27th March 2012
Federal Training Flops
7:16 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
From the December issue of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily
Federal Training Flops
by James Bovard
Barack Obama recently proposed new programs to provide job training for youth and the long-term unemployed. For half a century, federal programs have provided trainees with little more than false hope. There is no reason to permit the [...]
Saturday 24th March 2012
New York Times Op-ed Taps Advisor to Murderous Bahrain Regime to Criticize FLA Law
4:04 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
TRIPLE HOOT! New York Times Op-Ed page has an advisor to murderous Bahrain Interior Ministry criticize Florida laws on use of force.
Reasonable folks can disagree on the “stand your ground” law - but…… Bahrain?????
This is like having a Taliban spokesman comment on Rick Santorum’s views on contraception.
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Monday 12th March 2012
“Great Sugar Shaft” Now a YouTube Video
10:06 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
Stefan Molyneux, the host of Freedomainradio, kindly recorded an article I wrote for the Future of Freedom Foundation on the “Great Sugar Shaft.” You can see his video on Youtube. Stefan and Freedomainradio have a gift for marketing - the video has gotten almost 5000 hits in the first day.
New Yorker Cartoon Captures U.S. Politics’ Fixation
9:58 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 3
This great cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker may have been inspired by the Republican primaries – or Obama – or ???
Thursday 1st March 2012
Whacking Drones and Congressmen with Brian Wilson
10:35 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had fun whacking drones, Congress, and other dastardly subjects this afternoon. My hopes are dimming that 2012 will provide a great resurgence of American idealism.
You can download or listen to the @ 15 minute show by clicking on bovard-brian-wilson-show-3-01-2012