Archive | May, 2021

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Congress Is Still Unfit to Govern

Congress Is Still Unfit to Govern by James Bovard “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap,” Napoleon is reputed to have said more than two centuries ago. Boundless ignorance is also not a handicap, as Congress demonstrated last December by approving a 5593-page bill without reading it. Plenty of activists and editorial pages howled over […]

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Estonian Translation of my Biden Budget Speech Bash

Thanks very much to Objektiiv for translating my AIER piece on Biden’s Budget Buncombe into Estonian. I hope the humor worked better in translation. James Bovard: sõna sai Vikatimees 4. mai 2021 James Bovard Majandusteadlane, filosoof ja kirjanik James Boward annab mõttekoja Ameerika Majandusuuringute Instituudi (American Institute for Economic Research) portaalis ülevaate Joe Bideni Ameerika […]

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German Translation of my Never Ending Battle Between Leviathan and Liberty

Hearty thanks to the Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland for translating my piece, “The Never-Ending Battle between Leviathan and Liberty.” Folks who’ve heard me speak German are grateful the translation wasn’t done by me.  My fluency in that language is limited to a shoulder shrug followed by, “Mein Deutsch ist schlecht.” XXXXXXX Der niemals endende […]

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