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On this day in 1989, the Wall Street Journal published my essay, Honesty May Not be Your Best Census Policy. I had worked as a census taker in Illinois in 1980. But I did penance. When the 1990 census came around, I was laying for them, as Mark Twain would say. I exposed how the [ ] The post WSJ: How the Census Bureau Sent Japanese-Americans to Concentration Camps (1989) appeared first on James…
My 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes interview on my book, Terrorism Tyranny Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (St. Martin s Press). Host Brian Lamb asked great questions and we managed to have a few laughs on the grim topic. Some excerpts: Flattery ruins more politicians than sex. It is an old [ ] The post Terrorism Tyranny: 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes Interview (complete) appeared…
From my 2003 Booknotes C-SPAN interview on Terrorism Tyranny The Future of Freedom Foundation was perhaps the only think tank not embarrassed by any link to me my criticisms of the war on terror The post My 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes Hat Tip to the Future of Freedom Foundation the War on Terror appeared first on James Bovard .
Here s two minutes of my spiel at an April 2005 debate including Pat Buchanan on civil liberties and the war on terrorism. I was hitting the themes from my book Terrorism and Tyranny (2003) and Bush Betrayal (2004). The post 2005: When President Bush Seized Absolute Power (Video via C-SPAN) appeared first on James Bovard .
OTD 34 years ago, I warned: Pandering to protectionists is poisoning the North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA s managed trade squabbles sowed the seeds for future trade wars. Trump vindicated this article. Wall Street Journal, July 31, 1992: Free trade is not complex; it does not require an army of bureaucrats to define and re-define [ ] The post WSJ 1992: NAFTA Sowed the Seeds of Trump s…
Never forget how the CDC deceived Biden, Congress, and the American people on the failure of C*vid vaccine effectiveness. Fauci is catching heat but he had a heap of accomplices in hornswoggling America from my 2021 Hillsdale College Constitution Day speech one week after Biden vax mandate announced full speech at…
UPDATE: almost 20,000 views on Twitter/X and Facebook A week after Biden imposed a Covid vax mandate, I told a Hillsdale College Constitution Day audience: The Pfizer vaccine, the efficacy is now down to under 50%. Who would want to force someone to get an injection whose effectiveness is fading like a cheap suit? Well, [ ] The post Fauci Flashback: My 2021 Speech on Covid Vaccine Mandate Follies…
The New York Times, July 30, 1989, THE WORLD BANK; Fostering America s Interests Abroad . . . But It Lends to Oppressive Regimes BYLINE: By JAMES BOVARD; James Bovard is an adjunct analyst for the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and author of The Farm Fiasco. Barber Conable, the former New York Congressman, took over [ ] The post New York Times: Abolish the World Bank (1989)…
Anthony Fauci testified before Rand Paul s Senate Committee today. In lieu of explaining how he used his power, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination. This isn t the end of the story. Below are some of the pieces I wrote on him since the start of the Covid era. New York Post, [ ] The post Fauci Returns: My Best Hits on the Super-Savior Scientist appeared first on James…
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From Biden’s Potemkin Presidency to Trump’s Potemkin War By James Bovard In this age of social media and A.I. illusions, an old Russian scam provides the best lens to understand America’s two most recent presidents. In eighteenth-century czarist Russia, a fake village was built by a Russian governor named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin to deceive [ ] The post Biden s Potemkin Presidency and Trump…
On this day in 1978, my first op-ed appeared in a major newspaper. The Boston Globe published my attack on the Postal Service with a kick-ass headline that made even me smile: Time to Stamp Out the Postal Monopoly. Looking at the recent scanned image, I suspect the years have been hard on that photocopy [ ] The post Boston Globe 1978: My First Attack on the Postal Monopoly appeared first on James…
Afghan Lessons for American Democracy by James Bovard After Al Qaeda terrorists used Afghanistan for training bases for the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. military invaded Afghanistan and quickly routed the Taliban government. President George W. Bush boasted that U.S. troops brought freedom and democracy to Afghanistan. But rather than democracy, the United States brought Hamid [ ] The post Afghan…
From my 2025 Mises Institute Summit speech: James Bovard surveys attacks on property rights—from “open-fields” searches and no-knock raids to eminent domain and civil asset forfeiture—showing how each erodes privacy and freedom. The post My 2025 Warning: You will own nothing and be happy. Obey. appeared first on James Bovard .
