Archive | February, 2013

Mike McConnell, a talk show host at Chicago’s WGN, interviewed me today on the Wall Street Journal article on the EEOC’s campaign to browbeat businesses into hiring ex-convicts. We had zippety conversation jibing the feds. I especially appreciated him working in a plug for Public Policy Hooligan. You can download or listen to the interview […]

Mike Rosen, the legendary Denver talk show host, had me on his show on KOA this morning to discuss the Wall Street Journal article on the EEOC’s campaign to browbeat businesses into hiring ex-convicts. We had some fun trying to unravel what the feds were up to… You can listen to the show by clicking […]

Wall Street Journal February 15, 2013 Perform Criminal Background Checks at Your Peril A federal policy intended to help minorities is likely to have the opposite effect. By JAMES BOVARD Should it be a federal crime for businesses to refuse to hire ex-convicts? Yes, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which recently released 20,000 […]

From the Future of Freedom Foundation – on twitter at @jimbovard The Lingering Curse of “Bush Freedom” by James Bovard February 13, 2013 It has been almost four years since George W. Bush’s presidency ended. Unfortunately, it increasingly appears that Bush did permanent damage to this nation’s political vocabulary and understanding. Rather than repeal his […]

Some folks believe that the feds only got off the leash after the Patriot Act was enacted in 2001. In reality, the situation in the 1990s was also horrendous. I have reposted my Playboy articles at this web page. Here’s the first piece that I submitted to Playboy that made it into print. Playboy’s Jim […]

Here’s another epigram from Public Policy Hooligan: The fewer facts the feds gathered, the easier it was to vilify government victims. That line comes at the end of a discussion of how federal agencies’ shenanigans after the killing of Sammy and Vicki Weaver. Here’s the final paragraph of that riff: The Marshals Service, like the […]

Someone started a thread on Twitter yesterday with the hashtag #TheBestThingsAboutObamasDrones Here are some of the most amusing zingers thus far – The Best Things About Obama’s Drones is…. @poor_richard …they eliminate the need to read an American citizen their miranda rights @CanadianBacon_2 if they turn out like the Volt, they’ll probably crash into the […]