Merle Haggard and the Lost “Free Life” by James Bovard “Is the best of the free life behind us now?” Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 country music hit song. Nine years earlier, Haggard had scoffed at potheads and draft dodgers in a White House performance of his song “Okie from Muskogee” for President […]
Will Trump Learn from Bump Stock Battering? by James Bovard, June 18, 2024 The Supreme Court last Friday struck down one of the most controversial gun control edicts in recent years. The ruling on bump stocks is being widely hailed as a victory for an expansive reading of the Second Amendment. But it is also […]
Hearty thanks to Hrvoje Moric and his Geopolitics and Empire podcast for an encore lap around the track. Hrvoje posted our April interview initially on a bevy of websites, including Rumble LIST. But because he was in what he labeled the DARPATube Digital Gulag, he did not post it on YouTube until this weekend. Here […]
Ernie Hancock and I had a rattling good conversation this week on our latest escapades and the nation going to hell politically. The last time I saw Ernie, we were celebrating at Washington brewery – the feds had just ceased hounding him about his radio interviews with January 6 folks. You can listen to the […]
Counterpunch, June 13, 2024 Politicians Will Always Be Shameless Liars by James Bovard Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Former president Donald Trump was recently convicted by a New York jury after prosecutors claimed he was guilty of “hoodwinking” voters in the 2016 election by paying to cover up his boinking a beefy porn star. Manhattan […]
Here’s my video spiel spurred by my New York Post oped today. Will the Hunter Biden firearms convictions by a Delaware jury torpedo the most anti-gun president in U.S. history? Will Krispy Kreme devotees hunt me down and force me to pay for my heresy?
New York Post, June 12, 2024 Hunter Biden verdict shatters family’s myth of legal invincibility, endangering Joe by James Bovard President Biden’s re-election campaign was hit by a torpedo Tuesday when a Delaware jury convicted his son Hunter on three felony charges. Ironically, the political fate of the most anti-gun president in American history could […]