If this isn’t a @#$@#$ anti-Constitution ruling, I don’t know what is. Federal judge William Pauley upheld the feds seizing all Americans phone records. Why? ““This blunt tool only works because it collects everything,” Pauley decreed. This dude should be a White House spokesman, not a federal judge. At least his decision, by creating a […]
Xmas Redux: Confessions of a One-Season Santa Claus
Wall Street Journal, December 22, 2011 Confessions of a One-Season Santa When I asked one girl what she wanted for Christmas, she gritted her teeth: ‘I want you to leave.’ By James Bovard In the fall of 1977, I moved to Boston seeking literary triumphs and intellectual stimulation. As a 21-year-old college dropout from the mountains […]
How Abe Lincoln Destroyed Religious Freedom
The New York Times has an excellent column today on how Abe Lincoln destroyed religious freedom during the Civil War with a wink and a nod. Huntington College professor Sean Scott details how Presbyterian minister Samuel B. McPheeters was expelled from his St. Louis by a northern military commander for refusing to embrace the northern cause. McPheeters sought to keep politics out […]
Slower Than Christmas: Public Policy Hooligan Page on Facebook
I finally got around to creating a Facebook page for Public Policy Hooligan. Dealing with Facebook’s specifications reminded me of some of the most inept federal agency web pages I have encountered this past year. The cover image had to be a particular size – recreated above. Even I wouldn’t repost the book cover that many […]
Obama Gives His Wish List to Santa
“You covered?” is the perfect question. Obama has sovereign immunity – which is even better than government-issued health insurance. Now if there was only a way to work in a trampled Bill of Rights – or maybe a burning Statue of Liberty in the background…. But I ask too much at this time of year. […]
Fair Trade Fraud Epigrams & IHS Graphic
This sentence looks better in this IHS graphic than it did when I wrote it on a greenish flickering computer screen some 20 years ago. Here is the link to the web page for Fair Trade Fraud, which first came out in 1991. And here are some other epigrams from that book: “Fair trade” is […]
The Continuing Coverup of Police Killings Nationwide
Counterpunch, December 12, 2013 Protecting Killer Cops Where’s the Body Count from Shootings by the Police? by JAMES BOVARD President Barack Obama, calling for new gun control legislation earlier this year, appealed to “all the Americans who are counting on us to keep them safe from harm.” He also declared, “If there is even one […]
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