Elon Musk and DOGE are a comic gift that keeps giving. Here’s a video on my @nypost piece smacking the feds, bicyclists, NIH, subway sloth, and other targets. Here’s a link to the online version of my NY Post oped.
N.Y. Post: Musk, Vivek face target-rich environment for vile federal regs and waste
New York Post, December 3, 2024 Musk, Vivek face target-rich environment for vile federal regs and waste by James Bovard Elon Musk promises that his new Department of Government Efficiency can reveal how to cut federal spending by $2 trillion per year. Musk and his DOGE partner Vivek Ramaswamy are compiling a list of Uncle […]
Secrecy and the Divine Right to Deceive
Secrecy and the Divine Right to Deceive by James Bovard Secrecy and lying are two sides of the same political coin. The Supreme Court declared in 1936, “An informed public is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment.” Thus, conniving politicians have no choice but to drop an Iron Curtain around Washington. Politicians guarantee […]
Bartering Across East Bloc Borders (Wall St. Journal, 1987)
Wall Street Journal Europe, January 25, 1987. Bartering Across East Bloc Borders by James Bovard Socialism makes bad neighbors. This past summer, a Czech border guard stopped a Polish family leaving Czechloslovakia and ordered a Polish kid to take off his new Czech shoes “because taking children’s shoes out of the country is prohibited.” The […]
Shadows of a Fourth German Reich? [1992]
Reports of the pending arrival of the Fourth German Reich are greatly exaggerated. Yet, Germany does face a growing crisis caused more by the incompetence of German politicians than by the xenophobia of German citizens
Protectionism Is More Idiotic Than It Looks
Protectionism Is More Idiotic Than It Looks by James Bovard Donald Trump’s re-election assures that protectionism will become even more fashionable inside the Beltway. Trump recently declared that tariff is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary,” and the exaltation of trade barriers has become the latest political mania. Washington hustlers are loudly promising to […]
The Greatest Tariff Speech in Congressional History
The Greatest Tariff Speech in Congressional History by James Bovard, November 19, 2024 Donald Trump is bringing his idolatry of high tariffs back to the White House. Trump proclaims that “tariffs are the greatest!” and that “tariff” is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” Vast numbers of his Republican supporters will echo any dubious […]
