Congress puts more nails in the constitutional coffin as it’s set to renew FISA by James Bovard Promising reforms is the easiest way to perpetuate abuses in Washington. For more than a decade, illegal federal-surveillance scandals have rocked the nation. Unfortunately, the House of Representatives will likely vote this week to continue letting the feds […]
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Truth Has No Chance on Capitol Hill
Truth Has No Chance on Capitol Hill by James Bovard | Mar 25, 2024 Americans are encouraged to believe that the U.S. Congress is practically on automatic pilot to serve the public. Happily, most Americans are not so gullible and Congress receives much of the contempt it deserves in public opinion polls. But the media […]
N.Y. Post: Shed a tear for America’s rapidly vanishing freedoms
New York Post, March 1, 2024 Shed a tear for America’s rapidly vanishing freedoms by James Bovard “Is the best of the free life behind us now?” Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 country music hit song. Nine years earlier, Haggard had scoffed at potheads and draft dodgers in a White House performance for […]
N.Y. Post: Will student-debt racketeering save Biden in November?
New York Post, February 22, 2024 Will student-debt racketeering save Biden in November? by James Bovard President Biden announced Tuesday he will personally cancel $1.2 billion in federal student debt for 153,000 borrowers. The Supreme Court ruled in June that Biden’s $500 billion student-debt-forgiveness scheme was an illegal abuse of power. But the White House […]
Will TSA Steal Your Mug?
Will TSA Steal Your Mug? by James Bovard January 22, 2024 Dorothy Parker’s signature line, “What fresh hell is this?” is the new the mantra for travelers at American airports. TSA is rapidly expanding a program in which travelers stand in photo kiosks that compare their faces with a federal database of photos from passport […]
N.Y. Post: Biden’s Big Brother teams are now watching what you BUY — hope you pay in cash
New York Post, January 20, 2024 Biden’s Big Brother teams are now watching what you BUY — hope you pay in cash by James Bovard Americans are familiar with the Miranda warning, notifying arrestees that anything they say can be used against them. But the Biden administration secretly created a new tripwire: Anything you purchase […]
Thrashing Censors and Snoops on the Scott Horton Show
From Scott Horton’s website: Jim Bovard returns to the show to discuss a pair of articles he published recently for the New York Post. The first digs into the sought-after expansion of Section 702, which would free up federal spies to surveil even more of our digital communications. They also talk about the exposure and […]