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Abraham Lincoln’s Forgotten Atrocities

The Lincoln movie is on the verge of picking up a heap of Oscars at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. That movie did not quite capture Honest Abe’s full record. I was raised in a county that was devastated (and lost much of its population) as a result of Lincoln-approved Scorched Earth tactics in […]

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On Philly Radio at 4:30 P.M. Today – Listen Live link

I’ll be on the Conservative Commandos radio show this afternoon at 4:30 P.M. Eastern time to discuss the Wall Street Journal piece on the EEOC’s new hiring policy for ex-convicts. Here’s the details on the radio show: “The Host is Rick Trader and co-hosted by JD Gordon, Sam Rohrer, Anna Little, Kevin Wade, JD Miniear […]

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Playboy Redux: Pork Barrel Prisons (2002)

Last week’s Wall Street Journal piece spurred some comments about how the government needs to do something because of the scant choices facing the vast numbers of people who now have a criminal record. The endless proliferation of new criminal statutes is profoundly harming American society. America needs fewer laws, not more prisons – as […]

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How I Dodged an Iowa Job Trainers Lynch Mob

Okay, that headline is a bit of an overstatement. They were too lethargic to be a lynch mob. But much of that audience would been happy to see a liberal dose of tar and feathers applied to my hide. Following is an excerpt from the “Lambasting the Labor Department” chapter of Public Policy Hooligan. The […]

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