Author Archive | Jim

Karzai Gets 2nd Chance to Steal the Election

So what am I missing in Afghanistan? Isn’t this like catching a really dumb bank robber in the act (stealing almost a million votes) – and then, instead of booking him on charges, giving him another chance to rob the same bank? The U.S. government and NATO are going to let Karzai take another swing […]

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On Fox News “Freedom Watch” Friday (10/23) at @ 12:15 pm

Fox News’ Judge Napolitano interviewed me today regarding how the Patriot Act allows the feds to plunder the cash of innocent Americans. This is a damned outrage that Congress is definitely not fixing with the current Patriot Act “reform” legislation. You can watch the program online here tomorrow (Friday). It airs between 12 and 1, […]

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Where do we Report the Terrorist Cops???

The Los Angeles Police Department has a new video out encouraging people to run squealing to the police practically every time some stranger asks directions to City Hall. This is part of an orchestrated effort to keep people jumpy and clamoring for government to save them. But where do we report terrorist cops? Los Angeles […]

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The Feds and the Great Wall Street Heist

Here’s a great cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker: Fortune columnist Allan Sloan explains how the feds are creating vast windfalls for Wall Street firms with its artificial suppression of interest rates – the same policy that is brutally punishing anyone who put their savings in Certificates of Deposit or other interest-rate […]

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The National Endowment for Democracy’s Forgotten Sordid History

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my piece from their July Freedom Daily issue on one of the biggest shams of modern American history… THE EARLY HISTORY OF A WORLDWIDE NUISANCE by James Bovard Few federal agencies have as much bipartisan support as the National Endowment for Democracy. Created in 1983, NED’s stated […]

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Dilbert Nails Washington Ethics

I suppose for this cartoon to perfectly capture contemporary Washington ethics, the senator would insist on a conjugal visit with the lobbyist’s wife. Or maybe that is only how Nevada senators operate. Scott Adams has again laid out political reality far more cleanly than the vast majority of the nation’s editorial pages. It is only […]

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