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Tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal has 4 letters in response to last week’s “Raising Hell in Subsidized Housing” article. ******* James Bovard’s piece criticizing the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Section 8 housing (“Raising Hell in Subsidized Housing,” Aug. 18) viciously scapegoats families who receive housing subsidies. His condemnation of survivors of domestic violence as […]

The full text of last week’s article is now online here – WALL STREET JOURNAL AUGUST 18 2001 Raising Hell in Subsidized Housing Section 8 rental subsidies have long helped ruin neighborhoods. Obama administration policies are making things worse. By JAMES BOVARD Section 8 rental subsidies have long been one of the most controversial federal […]

FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE HERE (except for last sentence & tagline) Wall Street Journal editorial page: OPINION AUGUST 18, 2011 Raising Hell in Subsidized Housing Section 8 rental subsidies have long helped ruin neighborhoods. Obama administration policies are making things worse. .Article Comments more in Opinion ». BY JAMES BOVARD Section 8 rental […]

Press TV interviewed me today on the folly of seeking prosperity via military spending. My rambling spiel can be heard here. Some ideas are so dumb that it is difficult to kick them hard enough.

Here are some outtakes from a couple more interviews earlier this week with Press TV: Bovard: “what is happening right now is people are recognizing that governments do not have a magic wand. Doesn’tt matter what the politicians say, the government and the Federal Reserve runs out of ammunition. Perhaps the clearest measure of the […]

That’s the gist of my comments today during a Press TV interview available here. I made the following comment during this mid-morning interview – – prior to the Fed’s latest announcement: “People don’t know what kind of wrenches the Federal Reseve is going to throw into the market or what the Federal Reseve is going […]

another great cartoon from PC Vey in the New Yorker