The Supreme Court will hear the Alaska airplane beer robbery case I discussed last October at the Mises Institute Summit last October in Florida. Congratulations to the Institute for Justice and Dan Alban on another great forfeiture case.
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My 1994 Speech at the Second Amendment Rally, Lincoln Memorial, Washington
Hi, I’m Jim Bovard. I’m a journalist and a writer. I write about the gun issue. It’s always good to see a journalist we’re popular here. I’m gonna be talking about the ban on the assault weapons. This is the most important part of the crime bill to President Clinton and, but people forget […]
Supreme Court Ends Federal War on Gun-Owning Potheads
Supreme Court Ends Federal War on Gun-Owning Potheads by James Bovard, June 19, 2026 Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down a bullshit pretext that the feds have used to nullify the constitutional rights of more than fifty million Americans. The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibited gun ownership by anyone who is “an unlawful […]
My Property Rights Memory Lane Day – Wall Street Journal and New York Post
Playboy: IRS – Stand and Deliver (1996)
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 […]
Will Trump Get Evicted from Supreme Court Like I Did?
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 […]
Trump Tariff Meltdown
In a press conference today, Trump proclaimed: “I can destroy the [foreign] country.” Trump was outraged that the Supreme Court struck down his primary tariff scheme as an illegal abuse of power. Vice President Vance condemned the “lawlessness” of the decision – as if any limit on Trump’s dictatorial power over imports was lawless. How […]
R R Schoettker
The mad rantings of this rogue POTUS would be noth
Jim
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Alan Kent
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charles bukowski
Trump caused this. Do Not Forget.