The Foundation for Economic Education cited a 1996 piece I did for the Freeman as today’s “timely classic.” So… once more around the track – The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty Seizure Fever: The War on Property Rights by James Bovard • January 1996 • Vol. 46/Issue 1 Mass confiscation has become politically fashionable. Politicians […]
Archive | June, 2012
But not all Libertarians have Diabolical Smiles
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, […]
MP3 Podcast of Today’s Brian Wilson interview on FBI and Disability Quotas
WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a fun 15-minute chat this afternoon about the FBI’s long history of rising above the law. We saved a little tar for the Labor Department’s proposed hiring quota for disabled job applicants. Brian mentioned how the government’s definition of the disabled continues expanding. I said I was looking forward […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
