Nixon’s Resignation and America’s Impunity Democracy by James Bovard, August 13, 2024 August 8 was the fiftieth anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Unfortunately, that anniversary spurred little reflections or lamentations on how lawless the federal government has become in the subsequent half century. Aside from his Watergate abuses, Nixon was guilty of illegally invading […]
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N.Y. Post: How Joe Biden can save his old-man image
New York Post, February 11, 2024 How Joe Biden can save his old-man image By James Bovard After Thursday’s special-counsel report tagged the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” Joe Biden needs all the help he can get. The Post came to his rescue Saturday with a celebrity stylist’s tips on how […]
New York Post: Biden’s Economic Victory Lap Malarkey
New York Post, September 10, 2022 Biden’s economic victory lap is 58 pages of malarkey By James Bovard The latest Biden victory lap is the administration’s most shameless strutting of 2022. The White House Friday issued a 58-page Biden-Harris Economic Blueprint that claims to have performed more miracles than accompanied the Sermon on the Mount. […]
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 […]