The American Conservative posted online today my review of Jim Antle’s zippety new book, Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?. Â Antle recognizes the peril of Leviathan and is fairly optimistic on what Republicans can become and achieve. Â Here are a few of my lines from the review – which is posted in its […]
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My Wall St Jrn op-ed: IRS Political Targeting Since FDR
Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2013 A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting One survey found that 75% of IRS respondents felt entitled to deceive or lie to Congress. By JAMES BOVARD Many Republicans are enraged over revelations in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups with a campaign of audits […]
MP3 of Scott Horton Show Interview on Food for Peace
Scott Horton and I had fun yesterday discussing the twisted history of U.S. foreign aid on his radio show. The show was spurred by yesterday’s Wall Street Journal article on Food for Peace, but farm subsidies took a thrashing across the board. There was also enough time to kick the stuffing out of ethanol. Okay, […]
My WSJ piece: “Food for Peace” Hurts Foreign Farmers
Wall Street Journal April 30, 2013 [alternative WSJ link – not blocked by paywall] How ‘Food for Peace’ Hurts Foreign Farmers For a half-century the program has done more to feed special interests than help the hungry. By JAMES BOVARD The United States government is the world’s largest food donor but its aid consistently wreaks havoc abroad. […]
NY Times Confirms my Wall St Journal hit on USDA Scam
The New York Times has a great piece today on how the Agriculture Department and Obama administration are shoveling out billions of dollars to bogus bias claim victims. The program is fraudulent from top to bottom – and top government officials knew it. When I made some of the same allegations last month in the […]
Chief Justice Hooligan Bovard? On Brian Wilson’s Libertas Radio
Renowned libertarian talk show Brian Wilson and I had a rowdy chat today. It was a high-toned interview: no double entendres or “Raging Bitch” references. Here’s Brian’s summary  of the show – “Clear your schedule for about an hour to hear what author James Bovard has to say about the Boston bombing, journalism, gun control, and […]
Wash. Times: The ‘You Are the Government’ Canard
 Washington Times, April 15, 2013 BOVARD: The ‘you are the government’ canard Obama joins predecessors in blaming his overreach on us by James Bovard In his continuing campaign to subvert the Second Amendment, President Obama recently unveiled one of the oldest tricks in the demagogue playbook. Speaking in Colorado, he declared that since America is […]
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