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So the Federal Reserve announced this afternoon that it will spend a trillion dollars to prop up securities prices. The Fed doesn’t have the money, so they will print it up and have a fling at the market. Remember when Martha Stewart got sent to prison for alleged comments she made regarding an alleged $40,000 […]

Former President George W. Bush announced in Calgary yesterday that he is planning to write a memoir “so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.” Bush did not reveal if John Yoo would be the co-author. Bush spoke to an “invited audience of Calgary […]

The Washington Times published my thumping of Obama’s Medical Records Roundup. It was fun to work the IRS into the story! ++++ Washington Times Friday, March 13, 2009 Great medical records roundup James Bovard COMMENTARY: Computerization of personal health-care records is one of the showcases of the new stimulus bill. President Obama promised: “We will […]

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my Freedom Article on how the Bush administration and its media allies buried Abu Ghraib in 2004. This episode teaches that no one should underestimate the role of lying and blustering in American politics. Regardless of smoking gun photos and smoking gun memos (including the first Yoo […]

Here’s a podcast of an interview I did at CPAC last Friday with Victoria Jones of the Talk Radio News Service. Damn outrage, if you ask me.

The American Conservative just posted my attack on Obama’s plan to digitize and centralize everyone’s medical records. Ah, the joys of positive thinking about Leviathan…. HEALTH OF THE STATE March 9, 2009 American Conservative by James Bovard ** The President’s Plan for Your Medical Records The computerization of personal healthcare records is one of the […]