Obama’s Great Medical Records Roundup

The American Conservative just posted my attack on Obama’s plan to digitize and centralize everyone’s medical records. Ah, the joys of positive thinking about Leviathan…. HEALTH OF THE STATE March 9, 2009 American Conservative by James Bovard ** The President’s Plan for Your Medical Records The computerization of personal healthcare records is one of the […]

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Scenes from CPAC 2009

The Conservative Political Action Conference in DC wrapped up today.  I tromped down there Friday and got a few photos. There were heaps of books on Sarah Palin and several organizations touting her political future.  Joe the Plumber was there, along with lots of people who retain faith in all the nation’s recent wars and […]

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Epigrams from Feeling Your Pain (2000)

The following lines are from Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years (St. Martin’s/Palgrave, 2000): Those who forget past boondoggles will be perpetually taxed for new boondoggles. The issue is not how much a politician cares but how much power he seeks. Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial […]

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Socialist Irony at Newsweek

This Newsweek cover from a couple weeks ago had an unconscious irony. Newsweek touted an article “Quitting the Thug Life” at the same time that they proclaimed “We Are All Socialists.” Perhaps Newsweek’s wizards are not aware that socialism quickly degenerates into nothing more than economic thuggery. But as long as the New Socialism works […]

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