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TSA’s New Mask Mandate: Typhoid Marys to the Rescue

American Institute for Economic Research, February 8, 2021 TSA’s New Mask Mandate by James Bovard The Transportation Security Administration announced last week that it will be fining travelers up to $1,500 for failing to wear a proper facemask. The TSA could also heavily fine people for wearing a facemask improperly and maybe also for some […]

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Happy New Year, Facebook

Facebook attached a warning label yesterday to my AIER article on how 2020 ravaged comforting American myths.  Here’s my attempt to help them out with a ‘full disclosure’ warning label that they can apply to any of my 2021 articles.   Here’s a USA Today oped I did a few years ago on how Facebook […]

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Election Day Tweets

It is never too late for positive thinking. I’m old enough to recall when the media was less dishonest than the political candidates. — James Bovard (@JimBovard) November 3, 2020 How many votes has the Deep State swayed in this election? Will any Deep State chieftain ever be prosecuted for their lies & other crimes? […]

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Have I Always Been Hated? Maybe Only Since 1984

People sometimes ask me: “Have you always been hated?”  I’m not sure – I can’t vouch for my early years before I started writing.   But, despite my unceasing efforts to appease critics, my articles have provoked torrents of rage and loathing for more than a third of a century. After a Washington Post columnist in […]

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Complying with White House Orders for a Pandemic Mask

White House sez wear a mask, I wear a mask. But I don’t expect to get hired as a mask consultant. For the record: I’ve been wearing masks for several weeks.  In my March 24 Daily Caller oped on Pandemic Security Theater, I wrote: “Before granting politicians any more powers, we should recognize how the […]

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Cartoonist Gahan Wilson, R.I.P.

OK, so maybe I didn’t read many of the articles in my father’s copies of Playboy in the 1960s and early 1970s, but I always read the cartoons. My favorite cartoonist was Gahan Wilson, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 89. Wilson’s cartoons combined brilliant wit and a great Bullshit Detector. […]

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