From my too-damn-early-in-the-morning monologue for Press TV: The unemployment benefits program in the US has “major adverse effects” and kills Americans’ “incentive” to go out and look for a job, says James Bovard, policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation. “There are a number of major adverse effects from perpetuating these unemployment benefits, especially […]
Bob Grant, one of the most controversial talk show hosts of the modern era, died yesterday at age 84. He paved the way for later conservative hosts who thrived by inflaming listening audiences. He was a friendly and helpful host when I appeared on his show a handful of times in the 1980s and 1990s. After […]
From the August 2013 issue of The Future of Freedom – The Sordid History of IRS Political Abuse by James Bovard The power to tax has long conferred the power to destroy one’s political opponents. When the latest IRS politicization scandal erupted in May, many commentators talked as if the abuses were a novelty in […]
For cover headers on Twitter & Facebook, I hear tell that authors are supposed to use book covers. This is my first swing at putting them together. I will probably be using the collage in slots that are 30-40% smaller than the above slice. I welcome suggestions on how to make this look… uh…. better.
If this isn’t a @#$@#$ anti-Constitution ruling, I don’t know what is. Federal judge William Pauley upheld the feds seizing all Americans phone records. Why? ““This blunt tool only works because it collects everything,” Pauley decreed. This dude should be a White House spokesman, not a federal judge. At least his decision, by creating a […]
Wall Street Journal, December 22, 2011 Confessions of a One-Season Santa When I asked one girl what she wanted for Christmas, she gritted her teeth: ‘I want you to leave.’ By James Bovard In the fall of 1977, I moved to Boston seeking literary triumphs and intellectual stimulation. As a 21-year-old college dropout from the mountains […]
The New York Times has an excellent column today on how Abe Lincoln destroyed religious freedom during the Civil War with a wink and a nod. Huntington College professor Sean Scott details how Presbyterian minister Samuel B. McPheeters was expelled from his St. Louis by a northern military commander for refusing to embrace the northern cause. McPheeters sought to keep politics out […]
Jim
If your wishes on that video were true, then maybe
Texas Dan
You go to a protest and pull a gun on the Feds, yo
Thomas Leonard Knapp
It's not a very complicated question. The ans
Jim
Thanks for the warning.
Jim Foye
Jim, apparently the German government might be loo
