The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today an article I did for them was printed in the January issue of The Future of Freedom. Here are a few of the punchier lines: * Members of Congress will always prefer imaginary budget cuts as long as government spending gives them real power. * The more […]
from today’s Washington Times – Alexander Hunter provided some great artwork for the piece (at the bottom of this post) BOVARD: The great farm robbery Discrimination fear cows Uncle Sam into endless payouts by James Bovard Two years ago, an editorial in The Washington Times demanded an investigation of the billions of dollars in payouts […]
Hooligan tweaking — I will be adding a subtitle and will probably replace the current cover with the following design. I haven’t pushed the button on Amazon Kindle for the switch. Is the design below better than the current version on the right of this screen (at least on my PC monitor)? If it is […]
From the Freeman, September 1999 – partly extracted from my Freedom in Chains (1999) Here are a few of the punchier lines from the piece – * The benevolence of government rarely transcends the venality of politics. * The amount of power a politician can seize over other people is inversely related to the politician’s […]
Listening to the media touting Obama around the clock reminded me of a piece I wrote for Sheldon Richman, editor of the Freeman, five years ago. Unfortunately, the media and intellectuals are playing the same bunkum games now that they did under the previous president. Here are some one-liners plucked from the following article: * […]
The Wall Street Journal published my letter responding to the Pigford class action lawyers today: Harvesting Without Trying to Sow In their March 27 response to my “Rotten Tomatoes for a Billion-Dollar Farm Payout,” Philip Fraas and David Frantz, the lead counsel for the Pigford case, disparage the notion that many black claimants merely “attempted […]
I wrote this review 3 years ago for the American Conservative. However, since democracy is still floundering in a heap of places, the analysis is not yet out of date. Many of Obama’s policies since 2010 illustrate how representative government is descending into Elective Dictatorship. Here are a few extracts of my comments from the […]
Geoffrey Britain
"On April 5, 1933, Roosevelt commanded all ci
Jim
Ms. Podojil, thanks very much for your kind words
catherine podojil
Mr. Bovard,
Thank you for laying it all out so
Jim
thanks very much!
Rich Weyhe
Incredibly well written and informative.
