Archive | 2013

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New Blog Design: Thanks Brandon Snider & WooThemes

Only about half a decade later than I should have done it, here’s a whole new look for this blog.  Thanks to Brandon Snider for working hard since last weekend to get this site rebuilt according to my quirky specifications. (His email address is brandonjsnider-at-hotmail.com in case you’re looking for a savvy blog guy.  He […]

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EEOC Vehemently Disagrees with my Wall Street Journal piece

The Wall Street Journal just posted a letter from the EEOC’s chief legal policy advisor vehemently disagreeing with my article on the EEOC campaign to pressure businesses to hire more criminal offenders. Regarding the EEOC lawyer’s final comment – It is unfortunate that Ms. Mastroianni did not specify exactly how much workplace safety the EEOC […]

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Friends of Police Object to Article on Shootings by Police

  To my dismay, not everyone agreed with yesterday’s article in the Washington Times.  The Times printed a letter today by a policeman who believed that lawmen deserve special privileges after they shoot citizens: I was really disappointed after reading “Let’s start by controlling police gun violence” by Jim Bovard (Commentary, Monday). Apparently Mr. Bovard’s […]

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Waco: 20th Anniversary of the ATF Attack on the Branch Davidians

Today is the 20th anniversary of the ATF’s attack on the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. I thought Waco might be the most important public education lesson of the 1990s, but I don’t see the learning curve yet.  Most Americans forgot or never undertstood Waco, paving the way for politicians to commit other grave abuses […]

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