The Future of Freedom Foundation is producing a series of podcasts on the crisis of civil liberties. I was on their show yesterday with Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling. We had a rowdy good time and made it hot for the feds and plenty of rascally politicians. Here is my take on 30 years of […]
Are You On a Secret TSA Watchlist? By James Bovard In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized in that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence.” Unless federal agents secretly disapprove of you, your beliefs, or your suspected connections. Or unless those agents are feeling ornery and […]
\ nypost.com There’s only one way to end TSA’s political weaponization of surveillance James Bovard Only in Washington would an edict to banish all dissidents be labeled Operation Freedom to Breathe. The Transportation Security Administration in 2021 created a secret watchlist of individuals who publicly opposed President Joe Biden’s COVID mask mandate. Operation Freedom to […]
Washington’s Brain Trust Mirage by James Bovard, September 2025 Washington politicians and bureaucrats are controlling much of your daily life. The more paternalistic government becomes, the more the state is a symbol of the superiority of some people over everyone else. How much wiser must some people be to entitle them to dictate how everyone […]
Trump Pulls Plug on Hunger Hucksters by James Bovard The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual “food security” report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced that it is canceling that […]
Also posted on Zero Hedge, Eurasia Review, LewRockwell.com, Vogan (Italian translation), Before It’s News, NewsNet (France), Instituto Rothbardo (Brazil/Portuguese) Henry David Thoreau and the Well-Worn Road to Serfdom 09/25/2025 • Mises Wire • James Bovard Henry David Thoreau was one of America’s most eloquent and incisive philosophers. His derision of unjust laws in his essay […]
nypost.com Blame Thoreau for saphead leftists like Zohran Mamdani James Bovard New York City is on the verge of electing a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist,” Zohran Mamdani, as mayor. How did so many New Yorkers become so clueless about how the world works? Some of the blame goes back to Henry David Thoreau, a colicky 19th-century […]
Jim
Currin, thanks for your kind words & your reco
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