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Tom Blanton, Heroic Hell-raiser for Freedom, R.I.P.

One of America’s top political satirists and funniest hellraisers passed away this week. Tom Blanton did one of the best daily roundups of government oppression and outrages stories on the Internet.  His Project for a New American Revolution was an inspiration for me and thousands of other folks over the years.  Tom was also one […]

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Our Foreign Aid Programs Have Killed People for 50+ Years

While Elon Musk is being criticized for his role in slashing the budget of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), our foreign aid programs have been killing people for more than 50 years.   American food aid has sabotaged foreign farmers since the 1960s, causing waves of bankruptcies and subverting foreign nations’ ability to feed […]

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Why Is X/Twitter Blacking Out Images on FBI Controversies?

There is more robust and rambunctious free speech on X in many ways than existed before Elon Musk bought and renamed Twitter.  But my experience this week with X blacking out images of the FBI in my posts reminded me of dealing with Facebook in 2017. I walloped Facebook in USA Today for blocking my […]

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My Ruby Ridge Video Gets 50,000+ Views on X/Twitter

The video I made on Tuesday tied to my article, “How I Busted the Ruby Ridge Coverup,” now has 50,000 views on Twitter.   This is ironic since X blacked out the first image I posted with the video – the Playboy magazine article showing a rifle and sniper crosshair on a Madonna and child. I […]

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30 Years Ago: My WSJ Bash on “Bureaucratic Carpet Bombing”

The Wall Street Journal July 1, 1996 Bureaucratic Carpet Bombing By James Bovard The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, a little known but extremely powerful branch of the Department of Labor, is America’s premier racial racketeering agency. OFCCP Director Shirley Wilcher declared last year, in the settlement of a case involving a California computer […]

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