Author Archive | Jim

The Wall Street Journal published 3 letters today in response to my piece last week on the failure of federal job training programs. The second letter perplexed me: Surely Bob Dole, Howard Baker, Orrin Hatch, Dan Quayle, Nancy Kassebaum, Jim Jeffords, Mike DeWine and Mike Enzi were not supporting “overlap and duplication . . . […]

One of the most eloquent defenders of freedom has a new book that captures the breadth of his thought over more than 5 decades. The Szasz Quotationary: The Wit and Wisdom of Thomas Szasz has just been released in Kindle form. You can purchase the book from Amazon here. Though Szasz is a native Hungarian, […]

  As a paranoid book promoter, I can truly appreciate this cartoon. At least this blog never has any knitting references. [great Roz Chast cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker]

Scott Horton and I had a jolly round of target shooting at some of the ludicrous ideas driving the war on terrorism. You can hear (or download) the 19 minute interview’s MP3 file /podcast by clicking on scott-horton-antiwar-11_09_16_bovard

WBAL’s Ron Smith and I had a rollicking good chat on Tuesday on federal training farces. You can hear or download the show by clicking on the following: ron-smith-9-13-2011-80035-bovard1 ron-smith-9-13-2011-80035-bovard2

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Luckily, I didn’t have that same pose during the entire interview. And I haven’t actually been that tanned since 1977.

I’m scheduled to be on MSNBC around 4 pm this afternoon discussing federal job training with Dylan Ratigan. Should be fun.