Author Archive | Jim

Washington Post Condemns Open Government [Audit the Fed]

Today’s Washington Post contains an editorial that warns that Ron Paul’s “Audit the Fed” bill could end civilized life as we know it. Well, they didn’t go quite that far – but the editorial reads like it was written in a puddle of sweat. The Washington Post pretends to take the high ground – and […]

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On Glenn Beck TV Show today (7/24)

I am scheduled for a 3-5 minute interview on the Glenn Beck TV show on Fox News today sometime between 5 and 5:30. Topic will be AmeriCorps. The TV sched can change at the last minute, but it is currently on the lineup.

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Full Text: Barron’s Summer Jobs Boondoggle piece

Barron’s put the full text of the article on Summer Jobs online here MONDAY, JULY 20, 2009 BARRONS EDITORIAL COMMENTARY Playing at Work Isn’t Productive By JAMES BOVARD LONG BEFORE THE AGE OF OBAMA, FEDERAL SPENDING became the panacea for social problems. Not content with new spending for new ideas, from high-speed passenger-rail services to […]

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Barron’s: Obama’s Make-Work Jobs Harm Teenagers

Barron’s ran an article of mine on summer jobs boondoggles as a guest editorial in the issue hitting teh stands today. Here’s an outtake from the article (a subscription is required to see the full version on the online site). Playing At Work Isn’t Productive Barron’s July 20, 2009 by James Bovard LONG BEFORE THE […]

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Torture and Political Science

Amazing how few political scientists responded to the last 5 years of revelations about torture by the U.S. government. But perhaps this merely continues that profession’s perennial habit of ignoring the dark side of Leviathan. British historian Thomas Macaulay noted in his 1837 essay on Francis Bacon that “he who first treated legislation as a […]

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Will Obama’s Health Reform Lead to a Prison Building Boom?

I am starting to wonder if maybe Obama-Care will not make all Americans healthy after all. Sue Blevins of the Institute for Health Freedom sent out a shotgun email today: –According to the CBO, the largest federal expense in House health-reform bill is $773 billion federal spending (over 10 years) for federally established insurance exchange […]

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