From the Las Vegas Review Journal: US Attorney subpoenas Las Vegas Review-Journal for info about posters to a web-page story. “On May 26 the Review-Journal published an article about an ongoing federal tax evasion trial. The primary defendant, Las Vegan Robert Kahre, stands accused of tax fraud for using the rather inventive argument that he […]
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The Campaign Reform Crime (or Scam?)
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 […]
Flu-Induced Insanity from the Obama Team
The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration is considering pushing for all Americans to get 3 flu shots this Fall – “one to combat annual seasonal influenza and two targeted at the new swine flu virus spreading across the globe.” So is this part of a stimulus package for autism treatment centers, or what? […]
Dictatorship of Lawyers – or, Me and Law School
The Foundation for Economic Education reposted online a 2001 article of mine entitled “Dictatorship of Lawyers.” The piece spurred some incisive comments on FEE’s website: Comment by Bill on 10 March 2009: Ah for the rantings of another who couldn’t get into Law School; Neither could G. W. (W Gump) Bush. You can go to […]
Libertarians Still Lusting for Palin?
Is anyone closely tracking Sarah Palin’s continued popularity with libertarians? Charles Murray, one of the Beltway’s favorite libertarians (ensconced at the manically pro-war American Enterprise Institute), told the New York Times that he is “truly and deeply in love” with Palin. Joe Bast, the head of the Heartland Institute, said that Palin “was a great […]
The Highway Robber State
The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States – governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from marauding bands of politicians. (from Freedom in Chains, 1999) If you voted in the congressional elections two years ago, were you ceding the right to the winners to give @ a […]
Ron Paul Supporters Vindicated?
[full size photo at my Flickr site here ] And to think that many people thought that the Ron Paul supporters were too cynical about the Fed…. This monster bank/stock market bailout shaping up in Washington will probably be one of the greatest cons of the new century. This is simply letting politicians give themselves a blank check […]