The King James Test for American Democracy by James Bovard On December 1, President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter for all the crimes he committed from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. Biden’s sweeping pardon of all of his son’s abuses epitomizes how presidents and their families are now […]
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Will Musk and DOGE End the Federal War on Free Speech?
We can dream, right?
“Everybody in Washington Except for Me”
Elon Musk wants “super high IQ” people for the DOGE budget cut crusade. The only problem? Here’s an outtake from my New York Post video & oped
My N.Y. Post Video: Musk & DOGE Torpedo Feds’ Waste Crime Spree
Elon Musk and DOGE are a comic gift that keeps giving. Here’s a video on my @nypost piece smacking the feds, bicyclists, NIH, subway sloth, and other targets. Here’s a link to the online version of my NY Post oped.
N.Y. Post: Musk, Vivek face target-rich environment for vile federal regs and waste
New York Post, December 3, 2024 Musk, Vivek face target-rich environment for vile federal regs and waste by James Bovard Elon Musk promises that his new Department of Government Efficiency can reveal how to cut federal spending by $2 trillion per year. Musk and his DOGE partner Vivek Ramaswamy are compiling a list of Uncle […]
Secrecy and the Divine Right to Deceive
Secrecy and the Divine Right to Deceive by James Bovard Secrecy and lying are two sides of the same political coin. The Supreme Court declared in 1936, “An informed public is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment.” Thus, conniving politicians have no choice but to drop an Iron Curtain around Washington. Politicians guarantee […]
Bartering Across East Bloc Borders (Wall St. Journal, 1987)
Wall Street Journal Europe, January 25, 1987. Bartering Across East Bloc Borders by James Bovard Socialism makes bad neighbors. This past summer, a Czech border guard stopped a Polish family leaving Czechloslovakia and ordered a Polish kid to take off his new Czech shoes “because taking children’s shoes out of the country is prohibited.” The […]