December 5, 2025, COUNTERPUNCH Obama’s PowerPoint Death Parade Led to Trump’s Venezuelan Killings James Bovard Photograph Source: Debra Sweet – CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are provoking outrage across the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.” President Trump […]
Obama Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuelan Killings James Bovard, December 3 2025 LIBERTARIAN INSTITUTE The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are justifiably provoking outrage. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.” Donald Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that […]
DOGE is dead — long live Washington boondoggles! By James Bovard, November 30, 2025 New York Post DOGE is dead. Just over a year ago, President-elect Donald Trump announced he was launching the Department of Government Efficiency to produce “a smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy,” the “perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of […]
An Antidote to the FDR Cult A new biography presents Franklin Roosevelt as one of the greatest scoundrels of American political history. James Bovard | 11.25.2025 8:00 AM Reason.com Share on FacebookShare on XShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL Add Reason to Google (Open Universe) FDR: A New Political Life, by David […]
Property Rights Ping Pong Pandemonium by Jim Bovard | Nov 19, 2025 Remind me again why any reasonable person expects the federal government to obey the law. The Trump administration this week gravely imperiled the nation’s water supply by curtailing federal regulations over dry land. Or at least that’s the story the media is hustling. […]
nypost.com Fighting the crime wave of government robbing innocent Americans James Bovard, November 16, 2025 Despite being charged with no crime, more than half a million Americans have been robbed by government agents on the nation’s sidewalks, highways and airports in recent decades. Federal law-enforcement agencies arbitrarily confiscate more property from Americans each year than […]
Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance James Bovard, November 12 2025 During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time. A Nation magazine headline howled: “The United States Is Letting Its People Starve.” But […]
Jim
Ms. Podojil, thanks very much for your kind words
catherine podojil
Mr. Bovard,
Thank you for laying it all out so
Jim
thanks very much!
Rich Weyhe
Incredibly well written and informative.
