Will Bill Clinton once again break the "lies per minute" record at a national convention? #DemsInPhilly — James Bovard (@JimBovard) July 27, 2016 Bill Clinton – "Drop Hillary in any trouble spot & she will make it better" – Tell that to the Libyans, Syrians, Yemenis #DemsInPhilly — James Bovard (@JimBovard) July 27, 2016 Bill […]
USA TODAY Obama’s global anti-corruption cops should call Internal Affairs by James Bovard Our Democratic president continues to fund global corruption just like the Republican before him. It looks like Hillary Clinton will too. The Obama administration wants Americans to believe that it is fiercely anti-corruption. “I’ve been shocked by the degree to which I […]
Tonight’s Democratic candidate debate was everything a cynic could have wished for. Government retained its power to perform miracles, though no one explicitly promised that it could raise the dead. It is amazing to see how far & easily both Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley ran from their records in office. Following are some of […]
USA TODAY, January 12, 2016 First Lady’s box should be empty at State of the Union speech by James Bovard Saving seats for the dead would require a lot more room for victims of Obama’s policies. The White House announced that there will be a seat left vacant in the gallery during Obama’s State of […]
I was chasing other rabbits today and did not closely follow Hillary Clinton’s testimony on Benghazi. I followed some of the high points on Twitter and read a few news stories on the hubbub. But I am reminded of how the Washington media 20 years ago scored the testimony of Attorney General Janet Reno before a […]
from the July 2015 issue of The Future of Freedom The Mandatory Voting Panacea by James Bovard Barack Obama suggested on March 18, 2015, that mandatory voting could cure some of the ills of American democracy. He said that compelling everyone to vote would “encourage more participation” — perhaps the same way that the specter […]
Vox has a great chart today on the soaring rate of prison incarceration in recent decades. This is one of the most striking renditions I have seen of this particular seachange in the relationship of government to the American people. Hillary Clinton bemoans high incarceration rates but the Clinton administration plowed almost $8 billion into […]
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Robert Giordano
How many convicts has the EEOC hired?
Jim
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