New York Post, January 14, 2022 ‘Pro-democracy’ and polarizing media are the real threat to liberty By James Bovard American democracy is in grave peril because journalists are insufficiently hysterical and biased. That is the conclusion of a trio of Washington Post columnists and a panoply of other media experts. But journalists’ rush to the […]
USA Today: End Biden’s Vax Mandate for Health Care Workers
USA Today, January 7, 2022 COVID-positive nurses are in our hospitals. But Biden’s mandate forbids unvaccinated ones. There is insufficient evidence to justify forcibly injecting health care workers with COVID-19 vaccines. Strike down Biden administration mandate. by James Bovard Opinion columnist The Supreme Court on Friday will hear challenges to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates, including […]
New York Post: January 6 was not a Near-Fatal Attack on Democracy
New York Post, January 6, 2022 Dems and media who portray Jan. 6 as a near-fatal attack on democracy are absurd By James Bovard Last year’s Jan. 6 clash at the Capitol may be the most politically exploited ruckus in American history. Team Biden is doing a victory lap to mark the anniversary, but the […]
My Two-Bit Political Awakening
My Two-Bit Political Awakening by James Bovard Samuel Johnson may have been wrong when he declared, “There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.” But for young kids, collecting coins is a less pernicious pastime than becoming a pyromaniac or Tik-Tok star. My own experience collecting, […]
New York Post: Biden Covid Mandates Sow Chaos & Absurdity
New York Post, December 30, 2021 An air-travel vax mandate would do no more to vanquish COVID By James Bovard President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he will issue an edict requiring vaccines for domestic travel if his scientific advisers recommend it. Tony Fauci, Biden’s chief medical adviser, has been yapping in favor of such […]
Stopping the War Machine for One Day
Counterpunch, December 29, 2021 Stopping the War Machine for One Day by James Bovard I’ve attended most of the major antiwar protests in Washington since 9/11. At a 2005 protest, a cop tried to whack me on the head with a wooden pole. At a 2007 protest, I snapped a picture showing George W. Bush […]
Covid and Corrupt Federal Statistics
American Institute for Economic Research, December 28, 2021 Covid and Corrupt Federal Statistics James Bovard Federal agencies don’t count what politicians don’t want to know. President Biden and other Democrats continuously invoke “science and data” to sanctify all their Covid-19 mandates and policies, but the same shenanigans and willful omissions have characterized Covid data. During […]