In 1990, I gave a speech denouncing foreign aid & the World Bank at a Santiago, Chile conference. Sifting chaos today & saw a packet of photos maybe for the first time. The organizers offered to pay me extra if I promised not to punish the audience by trying to speak Spanish. Here’s links to […]
Trump and the Iranian government reportedly agreed to a temporary cease fire. Hopefully more carnage can be averted. Here’s my takes on the conflict over the past month.
Trump’s F-word Easter morning outburst is like a church service interrupted by a crazed homeless guy in the front pew who starts screaming profanities & threatening to kill anyone who doesn’t submit to his commands Trump's F-word Easter morning outburst is like a church service interrupted by a crazed homeless guy in the front pew […]
Scott Adams, the cartoonist who gave Dilbert to the world, passed away in January after a hard fight against cancer. His glorious BS radar deserves to be prominently displayed in the Smithsonian Institute. No one had a sharper ear than Adams for contemporary American bloviating.
President Trump is going to listen to a case argued today at the Supreme Court. When I went to that court to cover a case for Playboy, I was ejected from the press box because I laughed at the wrong time. My @washingtonpost piece on the episode Washington Post, May 3, 2017 Arresting someone for laughing […]
Our Train Trip to Political Hell by James Bovard, Mises Institute, March 23, 2026 A recent Facebook memory notice reminded me of when I was young and naïve and full of political hope. Okay, maybe I wasn’t full of political hope but at least I wasn’t as old at the end of the last century. […]
Also posted on Zero Hedge, Counterpunch, Eurasia Review, etc. Libertarian Institute, March 23, 2026 The Late Robert Mueller, Bill of Rights Executioner by James Bovard Obituaries on eminent Washingtonians usually omit the dreadful precedents they set that will vex Americans long after their death. Not this piece. Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week […]
Jim
Thanks for the plug for Tyranny Unmasked.
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