The Wall Street Journal published 4 responses today to my February 15 article on the EEOC – along with a great headline – “EEOC Exposes Itself to Ridicule on Background Checks”: Regarding James Bovard’s “Perform Criminal Background Checks at Your Peril,” (op-ed, Feb. 15): With the federal government trying to force private-sector businesses to hire […]
Abraham Lincoln’s Forgotten Atrocities
The Lincoln movie is on the verge of picking up a heap of Oscars at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. That movie did not quite capture Honest Abe’s full record. I was raised in a county that was devastated (and lost much of its population) as a result of Lincoln-approved Scorched Earth tactics in […]
On Philly Radio at 4:30 P.M. Today – Listen Live link
I’ll be on the Conservative Commandos radio show this afternoon at 4:30 P.M. Eastern time to discuss the Wall Street Journal piece on the EEOC’s new hiring policy for ex-convicts. Here’s the details on the radio show: “The Host is Rick Trader and co-hosted by JD Gordon, Sam Rohrer, Anna Little, Kevin Wade, JD Miniear […]
Playboy Redux: Pork Barrel Prisons (2002)
Last week’s Wall Street Journal piece spurred some comments about how the government needs to do something because of the scant choices facing the vast numbers of people who now have a criminal record. The endless proliferation of new criminal statutes is profoundly harming American society. America needs fewer laws, not more prisons – as […]
Podcast/MP3 of today’s interview with WHO’s Jan Mickelson on EEOC
Here’s the MP3 of the interview with Jan Mickelson on the EEOC’s latest breakthrough in public service. We had a fun time whupping up on wayward bureaucrats. You can listen to the broadcast by downloading or clicking on the following – mickelson-2013-02-19_part2
WHO’s Jan Mickelson: Bovard is “One of the Smartest Snotty People I Know”
That was WHO talk show host Jan Mickelson’s lead-in comment to today’s interview. Now, if someone from New Jersey said I was one of the “smarest snotty people” he knew, it would be the supreme compliment. But nobody is snotty in Iowa. Jan has noted my attitude problem a few times in the past. He […]
How I Dodged an Iowa Job Trainers Lynch Mob
Okay, that headline is a bit of an overstatement. They were too lethargic to be a lynch mob. But much of that audience would been happy to see a liberal dose of tar and feathers applied to my hide. Following is an excerpt from the “Lambasting the Labor Department” chapter of Public Policy Hooligan. The […]
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