Reuters reports that the Obama folks will soon permit far more exploitation of the financial data the feds have vacuumed up: – The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, […]
EEOC Trampling Freedom and Common Sense – Wash. Times
My Tuesday triumph of hope over experience: “Maybe congressmen will take time off from making speeches invoking freedom to actually rein in a federal agency trampling Americans’ rights.” –From today’s Washington Times – BOVARD: Making the workplace friendly for felons U.S. demands ‘no questions asked’ of job applicants by James Bovard Should it be a […]
Drug War Is an Atrocity Around the World: N.Y. Times
The former presidents of Brazil and Switzerland clobber the drug war in today’s New York Times: We need to acknowledge that not only are human rights abuses in the war on drugs widespread, but that they are systemic. They are an inevitable result of what governments do when they set repressive and unrealistic goals to […]
Brian Wilson’s Libertas Project’s Lively Launch!
Talk show legend Brian Wilson has begun his podcast series of interviews with freedom activists as part of his Libertas Project. His first interview is now online, featuring Lew Rockwell, the founder of the Mises Institute. Brian is one of the best interviewers in the biz – he looked at the feet of Jack Paar, […]
My Reply in Wall Street Journal: EEOC Policy Lacks Honesty and Decency
EEOC chief legal policy advisor Peggy Mastroianni complained in her letter published by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that my article on EEOC browbeating of businesses was “inflammatory.” So I aspired for a more subdued tone in my reply to the EEOC, which the Journal published today. **** In her March 6 reply to my […]
Dilbert: Leaders Speak Truth Only to Powerless
Dilbert creator Scott Adams understands politics far better than most Washington pundits.
New Blog Design: Thanks Brandon Snider & WooThemes
Only about half a decade later than I should have done it, here’s a whole new look for this blog. Thanks to Brandon Snider for working hard since last weekend to get this site rebuilt according to my quirky specifications. (His email address is brandonjsnider-at-hotmail.com in case you’re looking for a savvy blog guy. He […]
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