Washington’s Brain Trust Mirage by James Bovard, September 2025 Washington politicians and bureaucrats are controlling much of your daily life. The more paternalistic government becomes, the more the state is a symbol of the superiority of some people over everyone else. How much wiser must some people be to entitle them to dictate how everyone […]
Trump Pulls Plug on Hunger Hucksters by James Bovard The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual “food security” report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced that it is canceling that […]
Also posted on Zero Hedge, Eurasia Review, LewRockwell.com, Vogan (Italian translation), Before It’s News, NewsNet (France), Instituto Rothbardo (Brazil/Portuguese) Henry David Thoreau and the Well-Worn Road to Serfdom 09/25/2025 • Mises Wire • James Bovard Henry David Thoreau was one of America’s most eloquent and incisive philosophers. His derision of unjust laws in his essay […]
nypost.com Blame Thoreau for saphead leftists like Zohran Mamdani James Bovard New York City is on the verge of electing a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist,” Zohran Mamdani, as mayor. How did so many New Yorkers become so clueless about how the world works? Some of the blame goes back to Henry David Thoreau, a colicky 19th-century […]
Counterpunch, September 18, 2025 Trump Cannot Stop the Collapse of the Epstein Coverup by James Bovard, A drawing from 2003 Epstein 50th Birthday Book, released by the House Oversight Committee, September 2025. Author of drawing not identified. This sketch vivifies how Epstein’s crowd all knew what he was doing. On July 7, the Justice Department […]
IS COVER-UP OF EPSTEIN’S FINANCIAL CRIMES FINALLY COLLAPSING? By James Bovard In 2025, the Justice Department declared that billionaire Jeffrey “Epstein harmed over one thousand victims” – mostly young females, many of them underage. But a dozen years before his suspicious death in a New York prison cell, Epstein “was granted immunity from federal charges, […]
New York Post, September 14, 2025 Code of the Elite by James Bovard JPMorgan helped Jeffrey Epstein commit thousands of federal banking-law violations, per a bombshell New York Times report. Federal regulators perpetually ignored endless red flags of Epstein’s multimillion-dollar child-sex-trafficking operations. Federal money-laundering law requires banks to file a report for each cash transaction […]
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You forgot the lie of 1861. Some Americans, seeing
