Hunter DeRensis is one of the most talented young political writers around. He has done superb work for American Conservative, RealClearDefense, RealClearPolitics, and Responsible Statecraft, and was a senior reporter for National Interest. Hunter is the editor at Libertarian Institute and is the Communications Director for BringOurTroopsHome. He also has a superb collection of Americana […]
Radio host Shaun Thompson and I had fun lambasting the World Bank and big-spending U.S. politicians on his show on AM560 in Chicago. Thompson, the host of “The Liberty Hour” program, especially despises Keynesian type economic policies that pretend endless government spending will make everyone rich – eventually. I especially appreciated his kind words for […]
The Media War on Canadian Truckers: Is Freedom Public Enemy Number One? by James Bovard The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the Covid-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom Convoy.’” […]
With its new name "Commanders," the Washington Football team has given Americans a new reason to despise Washington. — James Bovard (@JimBovard) February 2, 2022 Personally, I'm disappointed they didn't name the Washington football team the "Tinhorn Despots" https://t.co/Y5YeXRF8Y1 — James Bovard (@JimBovard) February 2, 2022 "Commanders"!?! Bad name for football team. Should have gone […]
Will Politicians Revive American Slavery? by James Bovard In the wake of America’s disastrous Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment was enacted to prohibit involuntary servitude. Unfortunately, top newspapers, pundits, and think tanks are now campaigning to nullify that prohibition. Apparently, slavery was evil not because of the unjust subjugation but because plantation owners, not politicians, […]
UPDATE: Interview didn’t occur due to a Zoom snafu. Resched for next week, details to follow. I will be on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal tomorrow morning at 9:30 EST to discuss the Covid testing debacle, spurred by the USA Today piece on Friday. Program will be 30 minutes with callers-in. Here’s a link to the […]
USA TODAY, January 27, 2022 Who screwed up COVID-19 testing? Blame Trump, Biden and our health care bureaucracy. Under Donald Trump, the CDC sent out poorly designed, contaminated tests that recorded false readings. Under Joe Biden, testing is still in shambles. James Bovard Opinion columnist On a bitter cold afternoon last Friday, lines of people […]
Jim
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David Bryant
Thank you for this piece. The details and economic
Josh Boyer
They all have secrets, only it’s a double standa
Ricardo2000
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956):
“Nobody ever went
R R Schoettker
The utter impotent uselessness of the US congress
