Here’s a sunrise photo I took last week at Delray Beach, FLA. I owe this shot to the calendar: Sunrises are late this time of year just before the end of Daylight Savings Time. No way in Hades I’d be getting up before 6 a.m. to snap pictures.
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The Sordid History of U.S. “Aid” to Colombia
THE SORDID HISTORY OF U.S. “AID” TO COLOMBIA By James Bovard President Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of murdering Venezuelan fishermen. Trump has boasted of the killings by the U.S. military but claims all the targets were drug smugglers. Trump has threatened […]
Will Trump End Sham Democracy Promotions?
Reposted by Ron Paul Institute Report, Eurasia Review, Will Trump End Sham Democracy Promotions? by James Bovard The Trump administration has slashed federal spending for democracy promotion efforts around the globe. That rollback of U.S. meddling is perhaps the most positive foreign-policy reform of the Trump presidency. Since 1946, the U.S. government has intervened in […]
N.Y. Post: Give Me Liberty Instead of a Trump Coin
.” New York Post, October 12, 2025 Give me liberty: America doesn’t need a Trump coin — or any other presidential currency James Bovard George Washington refused to allow his image on the nation’s coins because it would be too “monarchical.” But will the Trump administration rise above that old superstition with a new dollar coin […]
30 Years of Lost Liberties: FFF Video
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?
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 […]
N.Y. Post: Tame the TSA
\ 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 […]
Jim Bovard
At least democracy promotion still provides full e
William Anderson
Wash, rinse, repeat. Wash, rinse, repeat. This is
R R Schoettker
What a fitting symbol for the 250th anniversary of
Currin Snipes
I just discovered your moving tribute to Doug toda