On Tax Day 2026, remember that the IRS was unleashed long ago. Here’s a piece of mine published on April 14, 1994 – Wall Street Journal -The Growing IRS Dictatorship By James Bovard A Gallup Poll released last week found that two-thirds of Americans believe that the Internal Revenue Service abuses its power. Yet few […]
As long as people are getting screwed on Income Tax Day, here’s a flashback to one of my favorite Playboy articles from 30 years ago. (Article text below images) Playboy, April, 1996 HEADLINE: Stand and deliver: the Internal Revenue Service has its own ideas on how to deal with critics.The Playboy Forum BYLINE: Bovard, James You […]
In 1990, I gave a speech denouncing foreign aid & the World Bank at a Santiago, Chile conference. Sifting chaos today & saw a packet of photos maybe for the first time. The organizers offered to pay me extra if I promised not to punish the audience by trying to speak Spanish. Here’s links to […]
Trump and the Iranian government reportedly agreed to a temporary cease fire. Hopefully more carnage can be averted. Here’s my takes on the conflict over the past month.
Trump’s F-word Easter morning outburst is like a church service interrupted by a crazed homeless guy in the front pew who starts screaming profanities & threatening to kill anyone who doesn’t submit to his commands Trump's F-word Easter morning outburst is like a church service interrupted by a crazed homeless guy in the front pew […]
Scott Adams, the cartoonist who gave Dilbert to the world, passed away in January after a hard fight against cancer. His glorious BS radar deserves to be prominently displayed in the Smithsonian Institute. No one had a sharper ear than Adams for contemporary American bloviating.
President Trump is going to listen to a case argued today at the Supreme Court. When I went to that court to cover a case for Playboy, I was ejected from the press box because I laughed at the wrong time. My @washingtonpost piece on the episode Washington Post, May 3, 2017 Arresting someone for laughing […]
Jim
Thanks for the plug for Tyranny Unmasked.
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