Today’s Foundation for Economic Education‘s email lists a 2006 Freeman article I wrote as a “timely classic.” Unfortunately, the article is not out of date. Once more around the track…. Here are some of the punchier lines from the piece: *The more confused people’s thinking becomes, the easier it is for rulers to invoke democracy […]
Musing how Bush’s war on terror and invasion of Iraq ten years ago changed the world… Here’s one of my old fav pieces first published in 2006 by the Future of Freedom Foundation, supplemented with a few photos I took. When I visited the Tower of London, I was mesmerized by Traitor’s Gate. I wondered […]
From today’s Washington Times [thanks to Alexander Hunter for the great art work!] BOVARD: Let’s start by controlling police gun violence by James Bovard There’s no counting of cops who kill President Obama is promoting his gun-control agenda by appealing to “all the Americans who are counting on us to keep them safe from […]
Today is the 20th anniversary of the ATF’s attack on the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. I thought Waco might be the most important public education lesson of the 1990s, but I don’t see the learning curve yet. Most Americans forgot or never undertstood Waco, paving the way for politicians to commit other grave abuses […]
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 […]
Wall Street Journal February 15, 2013 Perform Criminal Background Checks at Your Peril A federal policy intended to help minorities is likely to have the opposite effect. By JAMES BOVARD Should it be a federal crime for businesses to refuse to hire ex-convicts? Yes, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which recently released 20,000 […]
From the Future of Freedom Foundation – on twitter at @jimbovard The Lingering Curse of “Bush Freedom” by James Bovard February 13, 2013 It has been almost four years since George W. Bush’s presidency ended. Unfortunately, it increasingly appears that Bush did permanent damage to this nation’s political vocabulary and understanding. Rather than repeal his […]
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R R Schoettker
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