DOGE is dead — long live Washington boondoggles! By James Bovard, November 30, 2025 New York Post DOGE is dead. Just over a year ago, President-elect Donald Trump announced he was launching the Department of Government Efficiency to produce “a smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy,” the “perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of […]
An Antidote to the FDR Cult A new biography presents Franklin Roosevelt as one of the greatest scoundrels of American political history. James Bovard | 11.25.2025 8:00 AM Reason.com Share on FacebookShare on XShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL Add Reason to Google (Open Universe) FDR: A New Political Life, by David […]
Property Rights Ping Pong Pandemonium by Jim Bovard | Nov 19, 2025 Remind me again why any reasonable person expects the federal government to obey the law. The Trump administration this week gravely imperiled the nation’s water supply by curtailing federal regulations over dry land. Or at least that’s the story the media is hustling. […]
nypost.com Fighting the crime wave of government robbing innocent Americans James Bovard, November 16, 2025 Despite being charged with no crime, more than half a million Americans have been robbed by government agents on the nation’s sidewalks, highways and airports in recent decades. Federal law-enforcement agencies arbitrarily confiscate more property from Americans each year than […]
Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance James Bovard, November 12 2025 During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time. A Nation magazine headline howled: “The United States Is Letting Its People Starve.” But […]
On Veterans’ Day, Remember the Lies That Filled Military Cemeteries by James Bovard, November 11, 2025 [originally published 2018] Politicians will be heartily applauded for saluting American’s soldiers today. But if citizens had better memories, elected officials would instead be fleeing tar and feathers. Politicians have a long record of betraying the veterans they valorize. […]
nypost.com New York Post, November 9, 2025 Hunger games: The government shutdown showcases food-stamp fraud and follies James Bovard The plight of 42 million food-stamp recipients is the federal-government shutdown’s most inflammatory issue. Federal judges ordered the Trump administration to pay food-stamp benefits regardless. Team Trump first offered to pay 50% of this month’s benefits, […]
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