James Bovard

This is the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica. Indignation about bombing civilians seems like such a historic relic. Unfortunately, this atrocity seems to have been almost completely forgotten in the United States. Perhaps the last time that the most famous momento of that slaughter got any attention was when Colin Powell was shilling […]

An excellent Twohy cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker

Congratulations to Julian Heicklen for his heroic federal court victory on the right to notify on jury nullification. Julian, an 80-year-old retired chemistry professor, has been crusading on this issue for many years. He has braved numerous arrests and suffered a vast amount of abuse. Federal judge Kimba Woods ruled yesterday that the federal charges […]

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 hooey. The […]

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 did […]

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.

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Yorker cartoon captures the essence of taxation – except that the notion of the gunman saying “I’m sorry” seems utterly out-of-date.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?