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James Bovard

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Name: James Bovard

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

IRS Internal Revenue Service

Hunter: IRS is the most powerful organization in the U.S.

In 1931, the feds finally busted notorious gangster Al Capone.But, they didn't get him for murder or for racketeering or bootlegging. He was charged and found guilty of tax evasion.Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison. At that time, it was the longest ... [Published KTAR.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: IRS Internal Revenue Service, Al Capone, James Bovard, Powerful

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 2 reports

What IRS Approved While Sitting on Tea Party Group Applications

USA Today has a story about what sorts of 501(c)4groups the IRS approved for tax status while sitting on paperworkfrom Tea Party-type groups:As applications from conservative groups sat in limbo, groupswith liberal-sounding names had their applications ... [Published REASON Online - May 15 2013]

Entities: Tea Party Movement, Taxes, James Bovard

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 2 reports

JAMES BOVARD: A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting. “The IRS has usually done an excellent j…

JAMES BOVARD: A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting. “The IRS has usually done an excellent job of stifling investigations of its practices. A 1991 survey of 800 IRS executives and managers by the nonprofit Josephson Institute of Ethics revealed ... [Published Instapundit - May 15 2013]

Entities: James Bovard, Josephson Institute of Ethics, Deponent

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

US Department of Agriculture

BOVARD: Dancing to the beat of the grapevine

Does the secretary of agriculture need unlimited power over farmers to protect them against themselves? The Supreme Court might finally settle this issue in an imminent decision on one of USDA?s most bizarre regimes. When Franklin D. Roosevelt became ... [Published Washington Times - May 13 2013]

Entities: US Department of Agriculture, James Bovard, Agriculture, Supreme Court, Annulment

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Muhammad Khan

Good Luck, Pakistan! Thanks for Tweets

Pakistan holds elections on Saturday. More than 70 people have been killed nationwide in pre-election violence. It is encouraging that Pakistani High Court Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan issued a ruling on Thursday declaring US drone strikes in tribal ... [Published Antiwar.com - May 10 2013]

Entities: Pakistan, Drone, James Bovard, Muhammad Khan, Elections

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

An open letter from a Baby Boomer to Millennials -- an apology and some advice

Dear Millennial Generation,There is an old saying that says “make apologies not excuses.” And if anyone deserves an apology, not excuses it is your generation.An apology from whom you might ask? From the Baby Boomers that’s who.Let me explain.I am a 60 ... [Published FOXNews.com - May 09 2013]

Entities: Baby Boomer, James Bovard, George Bernard Shaw, Barry Goldwater

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Enron Corp

Our Soviet Media

In mid-March, the Wall Street Journal carried , the international financial framework that governed the Western world for decades after World War II. A photo showed the two individuals who negotiated that agreement. Britain was represented by John Maynard ... [Published LewRockwell.com - May 03 2013]

Entities: Vioxx, Enron Corp, Harry Dexter White

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Editorial, Opinion Piece Address Proposed Food Aid Reform

The following is a summary of an editorial and an opinion piece addressing proposed reform to the U.S. food aid program contained in President Obama's FY 2014 budget request.The Economist : "Since America began donating surplus wheat, corn meal, vegetable ... [Published Kaiser Network.org - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: James Bovard, The Economist, Reformism, Barack Obama

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

BOVARD: 'We deliver' NOT!

The Justice Department on Tuesday joined a lawsuit accusing Lance Armstrong of defrauding the U.S. government. The U.S. Postal Service spent $40 million sponsoring Mr. Armstrong?s bicycling team from 1996 through 2004, including the years when he won ... [Published Washington Times - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Lance Armstrong, James Bovard, Post Office, Ruth Goldway

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

BOVARD: The ‘you are the government’ canard

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 a democracy, people had no reason to fear ?the government ... [Published Washington Times - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: James Bovard, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama

First reported Apr 08 2013 - Updated Apr 08 2013 - 1 reports

Monday round-up

This weekend’s clippings continued the focus on the same-sex marriage cases, Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor , argued late last month. In the Los Angeles Times , David Savage and Maura Dolan discuss comments made by several Justices ... [Published SCOTUSblog - Apr 08 2013]

Entities: Kevin Russell, AMICUS, Same-Sex Marriage

First reported Dec 31 2012 - Updated Dec 31 2012 - 3 reports

Over the Dairy Cliff: How Farm Welfare Harms Consumers

Writing in today’s Wall StreetJournal , James Bovard highlights the absurdity of U.S.agricultural policy:Current farm programs—which consist of massive subsides, pricesupports and various marketing restrictions—were enacted in 2008and expire on Dec. 31. ... [Published REASON Online - Dec 31 2012]

Entities: Social Welfare, Agricultural Policy, James Bovard

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There Was No Surge in IRSTax-Exempt Application... [Published Lucianne.com - May 18 2013]
Hunter: IRS is the most powerful organization i... [Published KTAR.com - May 16 2013]
What IRS Approved While Sitting on Tea Party Gr... [Published REASON Online - May 15 2013]
What IRS Approved While Sitting on Tea Party Gr... [Published Hit & Run - May 15 2013]
JAMES BOVARD: A Brief History of IRS Political ... [Published Instapundit - May 15 2013]
A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting [Published RealClearPolitics - Homepage - May 15 2013]
BOVARD: Dancing to the beat of the grapevine [Published Washington Times - May 13 2013]
Good Luck, Pakistan! Thanks for Tweets [Published Antiwar.com - May 10 2013]
An open letter from a Baby Boomer to Millennial... [Published FOXNews.com - May 09 2013]
Our Soviet Media [Published LewRockwell.com - May 03 2013]
White House hopefuls from yesteryear still awas... [Published SGV Tribune - May 02 2013]
Editorial, Opinion Piece Address Proposed Food ... [Published Kaiser Network.org - Apr 30 2013]
BOVARD: 'We deliver' NOT! [Published Washington Times - Apr 29 2013]
We the Sheeple [Published LewRockwell.com - Apr 22 2013]
BOVARD: The ‘you are the government’ canard [Published Washington Times - Apr 15 2013]
Monday round-up [Published SCOTUSblog - Apr 08 2013]
Hannah Groch-Begley: Fox Borrows From WSJ To Di... [Published Media Matters for America - County Fair - Mar 22 2013]
Ethiopia: the ‘war on terror’ and the trial of ... [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Mar 04 2013]
EEOC Threatens Lawsuits for Hiring 'Discriminat... [Published Breitbart Feed - Feb 18 2013]
STILL TRUE TODAY [Published Northwoods Patriots - Jan 18 2013]
Over the Dairy Cliff: How Farm Welfare Harms Co... [Published REASON Online - Dec 31 2012]
Over the Dairy Cliff: How Farm Welfare Harms Co... [Published Hit & Run - Dec 31 2012]
Wonkbook: On the edge of the fiscal cliff [Published Ezra Klein - Dec 31 2012]
James Bovard: How the 'Dairy Cliff' Will Cream ... [Published WSJ.com: What's News Asia - Dec 31 2012]
Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy [Published Eunomia - Dec 07 2012]

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What IRS Approved While Sitting on Tea Party Gr... [Published Hit & Run - May 15 2013] <p><img alt="" height="197" src="http://cloudfront-media.reason.com/mc/_external/2013_05/bus-for-progress.jpg?h=197&w=350" title="Bus for Progress\|\|\|" width="350" style="float: right;"/>USA Today has a story about what sorts of 501(c)4groups the IRS ...
JAMES BOVARD: A Brief History of IRS Political ... [Published Instapundit - May 15 2013] JAMES BOVARD: A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting. “The IRS has usually done an excellent job of stifling investigations of its practices. A 1991 survey of 800 IRS executives and managers by the nonprofit Josephson Institute of Ethics revealed ...
A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting [Published RealClearPolitics - Homepage - May 15 2013] James Bovard, Wall St. Journal ...
Monday round-up [Published SCOTUSblog - Apr 08 2013] This weekend’s clippings continued the focus on the same-sex marriage cases, Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor , argued late last month. In the Los Angeles Times , David Savage and Maura Dolan discuss comments made by several Justices ...
Hannah Groch-Begley: Fox Borrows From WSJ To Di... [Published Media Matters for America - County Fair - Mar 22 2013] Fox News lifted part of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece to attack a federal farm subsidy program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture while Fox News Latino contributor Rick Sanchez dismissed the USDA's history of discriminating against female and ...