The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my article from the January issue of Freedom Daily on campaign reform scams. This is the first part of a two-part series on the McCain-Feingold act and related hokum. ******************************** The Campaign Reform Scam Part 1 Freedom Daily January 2009 by James Bovard In 2002, Congress passed […]
Politicians and Memorial Day: The Guy Fawkes Solution
I stopped by the Visitors Center at Manassas Battlefield Park last month and was struck by a quote capturing Georgia private B. M. Zettler’s reaction to being enmeshed in the battle of Bull Run: “I felt that I was in the presence of death. My first thought was, ‘This is unfair – someone is to […]
Put Your Faith in Bat ****
Scott Adams has paying tribute to MBAs this week. Here is his “bottom line” strip: It is good that more folks are recognizing the BS of Business wiz kids. Now if only people would recognize that political charlatans are even more dangerous….
Obama Economic Recovery Official Email Notification
[from the Wall Street Examiner :] From: TIMOTHY F. GEITHNER (us.treasury.adminoffice@us.gov) Subject: I am Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the United States National Treasury. Date: May 21, 2009 11:41:27 AM CDT Reply-To: apx-deliverycoltd@live.com Good day to you, I am Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the United States National Treasury. President Obama nominated me to be […]
Torture Masterminds & the Prosecution of Michael Vick
So Michael Vick has been released from federal prison after serving 19 months for dog abuse. Vick was prosecuted by an organization – the U.S. Justice Department – renowned for crafting legal rationales for torture. Maybe if Vick had claimed that he was talking to the dogs – trying to get information out of them […]
“Thus Ended Capitalism”
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams has a wonderful strip on the real credit crisis – the fact that so few people can trust each other any more. The only thing that was missing from the strip was a final square or two reassuring people that Washington will intervene and make honesty the law of the land.
The Real Victims of the Torture Scandal
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds debunks the torture scandal once and for all. In a post entitled “PELOSI LIED, THE WATERBOARDING ISSUE DIED,” Reynolds declares that “the torture issue was mostly a political tool designed to cow right-leaning members of the punditocracy by calling them Nazis. Now that it’s not needed so much, it can be allowed […]
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How many convicts has the EEOC hired?
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