My interview with Fox Business News’ David Asman on USDA’s food insecurity charade. Click here to see the video at the Fox News site. Or here’s the video directly – The one certainty is that this interview spurred me to trim my beard. I still can’t understand why the makeup lady scoffed when I told her […]
Future of Freedom, June 2014 How Trade Wars Shaped Early American History, Part 1 by James Bovard Fair trade is once again a rallying cry for many Americans. Many contemporary leftists believe that the U.S. government should impose restrictions or tariffs on imported goods that are alleged to have been produced by underpaid or […]
I am scheduled to be on the Fox Business News “Varney & Co.” show today at 12:20 P.M. Eastern. Topic will be yesterday’s Washington Times piece on the “Food Security Hoax.” There will be a video of the interview online; I will post a link to it after the show.
Washington Times, September 10, 2014 The Food Security Hoax by James Bovard Promoting hunger scam is how federal bean counters keep their jobs According to the U.S. Agriculture Department, American households suffer far more “food insecurity” than do families in Angola, Mozambique and Pakistan. The USDA uses different standards to gauge domestic and foreign “food […]
Wall Street Journal September 4, 2014 How the Feds Distort Their ‘Food Insecurity’ Numbers This isn’t about hunger. It’s about feeling that the ‘quality and variety’ of available food isn’t what you’d prefer by James Bovard On Wednesday the Agriculture Department released the results of its annual Household Food Security in the United States survey for […]
The New York Times Health section published a piece today on the benefits of low carb diets. This gives me hope that the New York Times will finally publish a piece on the mental health benefits of cigars. Every study I have read indicates that cigars are less perilous to one’s mind than Risperdal. Hat tip […]
Libertarian hell-raising host Scott Horton and I had a rattlin’ good chat yesterday about Eric Holder’s role in the Waco coverup, his hypocrisy on policy shootings, and a few other villainies. You can listen to the 23 minute interview by clicking or downloading on this link:
Tennessee Budd
You forgot the lie of 1861. Some Americans, seeing
