Maybe the real problem is that these folks aren’t enjoying bottles of beer. Another fine cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker…
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ACLU & Antiwar.com Sue FBI for Confidential Records
The ACLU & Antiwar.com are suing the FBI in court to get the FBI’s confidential records on Antiwar.com’s Justin Raimondo & Eric Garris. One FBI agent wrote in a 2004 memo that the Bureau should do further monitoring of Antiwar.com “in the form of opening a ‘preliminary investigation …to determine if [redaction] are engaging in, […]
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Civil War Scoffer
The New York Times’ Disunion series has an excellent essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne by Cynthia Wachtell, author of “War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914.” In 1863, Hawthorne wrote to an English friend: “The war-party here do not look upon me as a reliably loyal man, and, in fact, I have been […]
New Yorker Cartoonist Exposes IRS Secret
This great cartoon by Weyant from the new issue of the New Yorker explains the IRS far better than do most recent news stories.
MP3 of Scott Horton Show – IRS Interview
Now online – the MP3 of last Thursday’s Scott Horton Show interview on the Wall Street Journal IRS article. Here’s Scott’s summary of the show – “Jim Bovard, author of Public Policy Hooligan, discusses the IRS’s targeting of conservative nonprofit groups; a brief history of presidential administrations that used the IRS to combat political opponents; the […]
My Wall St Jrn op-ed: IRS Political Targeting Since FDR
Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2013 A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting One survey found that 75% of IRS respondents felt entitled to deceive or lie to Congress. By JAMES BOVARD Many Republicans are enraged over revelations in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups with a campaign of audits […]
Wash. Times: Will Supreme Court End USDA Dictatorship?
Washington Times, May 13, 2003 BOVARD: Dancing to the beat of the grapevine The raisin famers seek servitude liberation Does the secretary of agriculture need unlimited power over farmers to protect them against themselves? The Supreme Court might finally settle this issue in an imminent decision on one of USDA’s most bizarre regimes. When […]
R R Schoettker
The US congress ceased fulfilling its constitution