Author Archive | Jim

Brian Wilson and I had fun turning up the heat on federal training flops yesterday. At least the government has been consistent. You can hear the @ 15 minute interview by clicking here: brian-wilson-9-14-2011-job-training-debacles

Chicago talk show star Mike McConnell and I had a lively chat on the history of the failure of federal job training this morn on WGN. You can hear the show by clicking on the following: wgnam-mike-mcconnell-interview-james-bovard-wall-street-journal-jobs-programs-history_64756469

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat yesterday regarding using F-16 fighters to respond to airline passengers hitting the john. I fear that TSA may ban all Mexican fast-food eateries in airports – to save the government the indignity of sending up F-16s when federal air marshals panic about how long someone […]

from the Sept. 13, 2011 editorial page of the Wall Street Journal – What Job ‘Training’ Teaches? Bad Work Habits by JAMES BOVARD Last Thursday, President Obama proposed new federal jobs and job-training programs for youth and the long-term unemployed. The federal government has experimented with these programs for almost a half century. The record […]

Click here to see the video of last week’s speech at George Mason University. I want to thank the Future of Freedom Foundation and the GMU Economics Club for sponsoring the event. I especially want to thank GMU Economics Professor Thomas Rustici for the kind words of his introduction.

I will be on the air and on the net this afernoon with WSPD’s Brian Wilson – a great libertarian radio host – hell, a great radio host per se. We will be discussing the 9/11 anniversary and the use of F-16 fighter jets in respond to airline passengers hitting the john. I will be […]

On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks… Here are some epigrams from Terrorism & Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (Palgrave, 2003): Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy. The Patriot Act treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every federal agent like […]