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RIP – Sen. Arlen Specter, one of the heroes of Ruby Ridge. I intensely disagreed with many, if not most, of the positions that Arlen Specter took during his career. And as for the “magic bullet” of the JFK Warren Commission report – bah humbug. But Specter showed great courage in going up against the […]

  I bet the pollsters haven’t talked to those two guys yet. (cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker). On Twitter – @jimbovard

Jacob Hornberger, president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, will be speaking at colleges throughout the West next week. He is touring as part of a joint Young Americans for Liberty-FFF Civil Liberties College Tour.  He will be joined by author Glenn Greenwald and former Reagan Justice Department official Bruce Fein. All of the panelists are excellent […]

  This Dilbert cartoon perfectly captures the problem of contemporary democracy. Brings to mind a book called Attention Deficit Democracy…. (I knew I should have included cartoons in that book).

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a turkey shoot with the school lunch and breakfast program this afternoon.  The notion of fattening up kids didn’t get any respect.   (The interview was spurred by my “Why Expand School Free Food Programs” in last week’s USA Today.) You can download or listen to the @ 16 minute […]

While Michele Obama lectures kids on nutrition, Homer Simpson remains the Patron Saint of the federal School Breakfast program.  Free donuts for all! USA Today, September 27, 2012 Why Expand School Free Food Programs? by James Bovard High school kids are complaining about food? So what’s new? What’s new is that some high schoolers are […]

Bill Anderson had an excellent blog post on how the feds are coercing innocent people to plead guilty. Bill has been doing a lot of the best writing on this subject for years – and the issue may finally be catching fire. I belatedly added Bill’s website to my blog roll.  Bill, an economics professor […]