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9/11 at 25: The TSA Pox

  From my 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes Interview with Brian Lamb: “So when you go through that TSA checkpoint, you don’t feel any safer? Bovard: “No, I don’t feel any safer.  The chance of  me being arrested are a lot higher than they were before 9/11.”

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World War II, the “No Good” War

World War II, the ‘No Good’ War by Jim Bovard | Sep 1, 2026 September 1 is the anniversary of the start of World War II in Europe. On that date in 1939, Nazi Germany launched an invasion of Poland from the west and a few weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. […]

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Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court

  VIDEO VERSION OF THIS STORY HERE Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court by James Bovard, August 31, 2026 The Trump administration’s crusade to crush campus criticism took another wallop on Friday in a California courtroom. Federal judge Noël Wise ruled that the Trump administration’s “ideological-deportation policy” brazenly violated the U.S. Constitution. The Stanford […]

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Charlotte Twight, R.I.P.

Economics professor Charlotte Twight passed away this past week.  She was a courageous and principled opponent of the federal abuse of power across the board.  Her training as a lawyer was a huge asset in her analyses of the rascalities of federal agencies. I exchanged some emails with her over the decades but didn’t have […]

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