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Where is the Body Count from Police Shootings?

Posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation – from the August 2013 issue of the Future of Freedom – Where’s the Body Count from Shootings by the Police? by James Bovard Barack Obama has made curtailing Americans’ right to own firearms one of his highest priorities. Earlier this year, he appealed to “all […]

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My 1983 “Feeding Everybody” / Food Stamp Failure article

Yesterday’s Washington Times’ “Obama’s Obesity Epidemic” article is spurring some controversy.  Rush Limbaugh quoted the piece and the liberal website Media Matters attacked his statements.  Media Matters also asserted that “Bovard mislead his readers about obesity studies to craft a false narrative that food stamp use is linked to childhood obesity.” But there is far more evidence of that link that was […]

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Wash. Times: Obama’s Obesity Epidemic

Washington Times, December 3, 2013 BOVARD: Obama’s obesity epidemic by James Bovard Federal food programs are now feeding more than 100 million Americans. The number of recipients has soared in recent years, thanks in part to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign pledge to abolish childhood hunger by 2015. The food-aid explosion is worsening the nation’s obesity […]

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Congratulations to Obama on HealthCare.Gov Success

The Obama administration is claiming victory in its re-launch today of the Healthcare.gov website. Tom Blanton, the mastermind of the Project for a New American Revolution, has the inside story on the Big Fix:   You can see more of Tom’s zippety political art on his Flickr page here.

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YIKES! NSA Might be Tracking My Sheep Searches

YIKES! The NSA might be tracking the number of sheep photos I have viewed online. I swear – I was only doing research on agricultural policy….. Another great piece from Glenn Greenwald today: “The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of […]

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Barron’s Op-Ed: Time to Reform Food Stamps

, November 23, 2013 Reform Food Stamps for Good Nutrition By JAMES BOVARD The Agriculture Department should reform the food-stamp program to permit beneficiaries to purchase only high-nutrient foods. Since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, food-stamp spending has more than doubled, to roughly $80 billion a year, and the number of recipients […]

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