Author Archive | Jim

JPB-1987-Amtrak-satire-Detroit-News-logo-Photoshop-combo

Lampooning Amtrak in the 1980s

Amtrak trended on Twitter yesterday as Team Biden hypes the president’s devotion to taking the train – thus proving that soaring gas prices should not bother patriotic Americans. After a bumbling train trip from New York to Washington, I wrote the following smackdown for the Detroit News and a few other publications. (New York City […]

Continue Reading
torture-supreme-court-combo-image-2560px-US_Supreme_Court

Supreme Court Betrays Justice to Protect Torturers

Mises Institute, March 12, 2021 The Supreme Court Uses Twisted Logic to Protect US Agents Committing Torture by James Bovard The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of […]

Continue Reading
cluster cluster-bombs

Thumping Blundering to War

Media elite believe that Americans will happily pay soaring gas prices to "virtue signal" their support for Ukraine. This is almost as foolhardy as Putin's invasion of Ukraine. — James Bovard (@JimBovard) March 8, 2022 This #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine protest would be more realistic with some massive blasts to rattle all the artists' teeth, symbolizing the risk […]

Continue Reading
bomb-peanut-butter-combo-for-culinary-libertarian-podcast-512px-Peanut_Butter_Texture

War Propaganda and Peanut Butter on the Culinary Libertarian Podcast

Dann Reid, the host of the Culinary Libertarian podcast, had me on his show last week to discuss the torrent of propaganda spurred by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.  As Lily Tomlin quipped, “No matter how cynical you get, it is not enough to keep up. The wide-ranging conversation also covered cheap cigars, peanut butter, and other […]

Continue Reading
2014 photo via Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCN6WabWEBw

Washington Foreign Policy Experts Could Get Us All Killed

The Biden administration appears to be blundering ever close to a war with Russia. People can condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the killing of civilians without fantasizing that the U.S. military has a magic wand to stop that war.  Unfortunately, the American media and a herd of pundits is pushing for military intervention such […]

Continue Reading
biden sotu Screenshot 2022-03-01 220029

“Go Get Him!??” Carping on Biden’s State of the Union Address

Biden’s speech ended with a bizarre shout: “Go get him!” Everyone mystified so far by that closing. Hearty thanks to the Ron Paul Institute for their kind words on this post: Jim Bovard is an authentic American hero. There is truly no one like him in journalism today. Read everything he writes. Listen to everything […]

Continue Reading
Welcome-to-Washington-Police-Greet-Protestor SMITHSONIANs

New York Post: Fencing Off U.S. Capitol is Authoritarian

New York Post, February 26, 2022 Permanent Capitol fence will make America look like authoritarian state By   James Bovard    Updated The fence that was built following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol (inset) was briefly reinstalled before a Sept. 18 protest complete with cops impersonating Star Wars Imperial Troopers — a bad look for […]

Continue Reading