Archive | October, 2024

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Do I Look Like a Russian Propagandist?

Do I Look Like a Russian Propagandist? James Bovard , American Conservative Oct 31, 2024 5:00 PM Getting online Thursday morning, I did the usual Google vanity search. I was mystified to see a link for a hit piece by the Atlantic Council, a top DC think tank funded by the U.S. State Department, foreign […]

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Will Tuesday Vote Counts Be Another Sham Biden-Harris Statistic?

Will Tuesday Vote Counts Be Another Sham Biden-Harris Statistic? by James Bovard, October 30, 2024 If Kamala Harris wins the presidential election on Tuesday, Americans will be told that the final vote count is a sacred number that was practically handed down from Mt. Sinai engraved on a stone tablet. Any American who casts doubt […]

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The Most Dangerous Democratic Delusion

The Most Dangerous Democratic Delusion by James Bovard, October 30, 2024 Democracy is a system of government under which the people are automatically liable for whatever the rulers inflict upon them.  Many of the most deadly errors of contemporary political thinking stem from the notion that in a democracy the government is the people, so […]

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Do Americans Still Give a Damn About Freedom? Podcast

Thanks again to Kelley Vlahos for having me on her podcast last week. Here are a couple brief excerpts of my riffs (transcript below): Part of what fascinates me with this election cycle is to try to figure out how many Americans still give a damn about freedom. Because to see the ease with which […]

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My War on the Federal War on Marijuana

via the Kelley Vlahos podcast: “The U. S. government was spraying Paraquat –  poison – On marijuana crops abroad and some of that marijuana was imported in the U. S. and poisoned people here. Then the government started spraying the marijuana crops in the national parks and other places. And, it was similar to what […]

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Tyranny via “Freedom from Fear”

October 25, 2024 Tyranny via “Freedom From Fear” James Bovard The Democratic Party is championing Kamala Harris as a born-again champion of freedom.  Earlier this year, Democrats shifted their rhetorical focus from democracy to freedom, hoping the latter term would rev up more voters. “Freedom from fear” has become one of the top pledges of […]

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