Archive | July, 2026

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Why Is X/Twitter Blacking Out Images on FBI Controversies?

There is more robust and rambunctious free speech on X in many ways than existed before Elon Musk bought and renamed Twitter.  But my experience this week with X blacking out images of the FBI in my posts reminded me of dealing with Facebook in 2017. I walloped Facebook in USA Today for blocking my […]

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My Ruby Ridge Video Gets 50,000+ Views on X/Twitter

The video I made on Tuesday tied to my article, “How I Busted the Ruby Ridge Coverup,” now has 50,000 views on Twitter.   This is ironic since X blacked out the first image I posted with the video – the Playboy magazine article showing a rifle and sniper crosshair on a Madonna and child. I […]

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30 Years Ago: My WSJ Bash on “Bureaucratic Carpet Bombing”

The Wall Street Journal July 1, 1996 Bureaucratic Carpet Bombing By James Bovard The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, a little known but extremely powerful branch of the Department of Labor, is America’s premier racial racketeering agency. OFCCP Director Shirley Wilcher declared last year, in the settlement of a case involving a California computer […]

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FBI Boss Robert Mueller Conned America to Ravage Our Rights

FBI Boss Robert Mueller Conned America to Ravage Our Rights by James Bovard Former FBI director Robert Mueller was a twenty-first century version of J. Edgar Hoover, trampling the Constitution and seizing new power on any pretext. When Mueller died in March, the New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of […]

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