Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance James Bovard, November 12 2025 During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time. A Nation magazine headline howled: “The United States Is Letting Its People Starve.” But […]
nypost.com New York Post, November 9, 2025 Hunger games: The government shutdown showcases food-stamp fraud and follies James Bovard The plight of 42 million food-stamp recipients is the federal-government shutdown’s most inflammatory issue. Federal judges ordered the Trump administration to pay food-stamp benefits regardless. Team Trump first offered to pay 50% of this month’s benefits, […]
The Future of Freedom Foundation is producing a series of podcasts on the crisis of civil liberties. I was on their show yesterday with Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling. We had a rowdy good time and made it hot for the feds and plenty of rascally politicians. Here is my take on 30 years of […]
Are You On a Secret TSA Watchlist? By James Bovard In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized in that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence.” Unless federal agents secretly disapprove of you, your beliefs, or your suspected connections. Or unless those agents are feeling ornery and […]
\ nypost.com There’s only one way to end TSA’s political weaponization of surveillance James Bovard Only in Washington would an edict to banish all dissidents be labeled Operation Freedom to Breathe. The Transportation Security Administration in 2021 created a secret watchlist of individuals who publicly opposed President Joe Biden’s COVID mask mandate. Operation Freedom to […]
Trump Pulls Plug on Hunger Hucksters by James Bovard The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual “food security” report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced that it is canceling that […]
New York Post Oh, Canada’s hypocrisy! ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters face ludicrous prison sentences for mere ‘mischief’ By James Bovard Published Aug. 2, 2025, 10:00 a.m. ET According to Canada’s top prosecutors, the only thing worse than tyranny is “mischief.” And the worst possible “mischief” is objecting to tyranny. In a sentencing hearing earlier this week, […]
Tennessee Budd
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