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My Wall Street Journal tribute to the highway department is spurring some incisive comments. I will revise my Blurb List later tonight. William Gomes, commented posted at WSJ: The real failure of Mr Bovard’s summer job was, it seems, making him into the bitter and cantankerous individual he is today…. I cannot imagine his colleagues […]

Here’s a pleasant jaunt down memory lane…. part of a project I’ve been whittlin’ on for awhile. WALL STREET JOURNAL .My Summer Road to Perdition What did I learn as a young man laboring for the Virginia Highway Department? How to work slowly to slipshod standards. By JAMES BOVARD Mayors, governors and congressmen are busily […]

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat this afternoon about foreign aid, Afghanistan, and whether Sheryl Crow (the Panty Peak star of the Country Music award show) should be labeled “middle aged.” I didn’t say she wasn’t cute. Brian’s wit and wrath against the government makes for a fun show. You can […]

My tribute to foreign aid is the guest editorial in this week’s Barron’s. Here is an outtake they have posted online: Editorial Commentary | SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2011 The Anti-Corruption Charade By JAMES BOVARD If there’s free money to steal, there will be more stealing In much of the world, governing is a synonym for […]

Following is a powerful video from http://www.enlightened-rogue.blogspot.com/ – from an essay that Roger Young wrote for LewRockwell.com in 2004. ** You can see the YouTube video by clicking here.