Archive | October, 2023

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Macaulay and the Ghosts of Tyranny Past, Part 2

Macaulay and the Ghosts of Tyranny Past, Part 2 by James Bovard Reposing with a favorite author in the Virginia Tech library in 1976, I savored one zinger after another in Thomas Macaulay’s History of England. Macaulay hailed the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 as “the most stringent curb that ever legislation imposed on tyranny,” […]

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N.Y. Post: Mistake? Or is Jamaal Bowman a liar, liar, House on fire

New York Post, October 2, 2023 Mistake? Or is Jamaal Bowman a liar, liar, House on fire by James Bovard “You can send a man to Congress but you can’t make him think,” Milton Berle quipped in the 1950s. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, the socialist congressman representing The Bronx and Yonkers, is the latest political nitwit […]

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