I was happy to learn this afternoon that I am one of six finalists for the Reason Foundation’s Bastiat Prize for Journalism. Frederic Bastiat was one of the most eloquent and incisive economists of the 19th century. He set the gold standard for lucid, courageous policy writing. And he was an uncompromising champion of freedom. […]
Peter Boyles and I had a great chat on the cover-up of the potential Saudi role in the 9/11 attacks on KNUS radio in Denver this morning (spurred by my USA Today oped on that topic). Peter is one of the best informed talk show hosts I have spoken with in a long time. He […]
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today the following article from the June issue of the Future of Freedom – The Supreme Court’s Dreadful Record on Constitutional Rights by James Bovard The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the legality of the Affordable Care Act this past March. Several justices questioned whether a ruling […]
I will be on the Peter Boyles show on KNUS AM Radio in Denver on Thursday, October 1, at 9 a.m. EASTERN. We will be discussing the Saudis and the 9/11 attacks and the continuing coverup of the congressional report on 9/11 (which I discussed in this USA Today op-ed, “We need to know: Did […]
This is the 30th anniversary of my first attack on the World Bank in the national media. Reposted below are some of my attacks on the Bank from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. I discuss in Public Policy Hooligan how I nabbed some of the confidential documents exposed below. The Bank continues […]
I want to thank host Doug Herendeen of WRTA News Talk 1240 radio in Altoona, PA for having me on his show to pay our respects to government waste. We had fun talking about my recent U.S. News article on the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and why it is so difficult to end wasteful government spending. […]
My USA Today oped on “Washington’s Latest Hunger Charade” is being reprinted in newspapers around the nation. It popped up in a few places in New Jersey and spurred the response below from the director of the New Jersey Anti-Hunger Coalition. This anti-hunger activist laments that “USDA found that some 17 million people across the […]