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 […]
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 […]
Thanks to everyone who viewed, commented on, or reposted my Ruby Ridge videos I posted on Facebook and Twitter/X the last few days. The number of views on my posts is roughly 70,000. https://x.com/JimBovard/status/2090855675760967829 [23,000+]] https://x.com/JimBovard/status/2091140557712007176 [my 1996 Stanford speech] [6,800+ views] https://x.com/JimBovard/status/2091716534129377779 [4,000+ views] https://x.com/JimBovard/status/2091209883567735051 [WSJ “No Accountability at FBI”] 3,400 views https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10239601105239106&set=a.1161173522910 [4,500+ […]
This is the 454th anniversary of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, when the French king and Pope ordered Catholics to slaughter tens of thousands of Protestants (known as Huguenots) in Paris and elsewhere in France. That was the largest religious massacre in Europe in the 1500s. Queen Margot, a 1994 French film, captures some of […]
Presidential Entitlement to Kill: The 1998 Bombing of Sudan By James Bovard Last week was the 28th anniversary of the U.S. government bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. Scott Horton, director of the Libertarian Institute, observed last week that that wanton assault by the Clinton administration “helped make a folk hero out of bin […]
On this day in 1989, the Wall Street Journal published my essay, “Honesty May Not be Your Best Census Policy.” I had worked as a census taker in Illinois in 1980. But I did penance. When the 1990 census came around, I was “laying for them,” as Mark Twain would say. I exposed how the […]
My 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes interview on my book, Terrorism & Tyranny” Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (St. Martin’s Press). Host Brian Lamb asked great questions and we managed to have a few laughs on the grim topic. Some excerpts: “Flattery ruins more politicians than sex.” “It is an old […]