1995: When I Testified Before the Train Wreck Known as Congress by James Bovard President Trump hosted Elon Musk for a farewell press conference on Friday. Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team savvily exposed federal follies and spurred over $100 billion in canceled federal contracts and cutbacks. It remains to be seen […]
FOX NEWS, Opinion – May 5, 2025 DOGE helps gut the leftist lunacy at this most pious agency by James Bovard, Agency’s own Inspector General blamed it for a ‘shocking waste of taxpayer funds, lax oversight’ AmeriCorps is proof that if “we hold hands and believe … we can change anything we want to change,” […]
Trump Freezes Foreign Aid Frauds by James Bovard, Libertarian Institute January 29, 2025 The Trump administration suspended top officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development earlier this week. The move, labeled a “Monday afternoon massacre,” was spurred by allegations that top USAID officials were circumventing President Trump’s ninety day freeze on foreign aid disbursements. […]
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.
The TSA Is Still Crazy after All These Years by James Bovard November 14, 2023 The TSA has been promising to end its boneheaded ways for more than 20 years. Flying out of Dallas International Airport last week, I ruefully recognized that all TSA reform promises are malarkey. As I neared the end of a […]
New York Post, August 9, 2023 Joe’s Bidenomics victory tour is a bust on Day One By James Bovard Joe Biden’s re-election campaign kicks into high gear this week with the president and Cabinet secretaries blanketing the nation to boast about Bidenomics. But CNN reports more than half of Americans believe “the economy is still […]
New York Post, May 31, 2023 Get them rewrite! Debt-ceiling deal fails to fix DC by James Bovard The biggest peril of the Biden-McCarthy budget deal is spawning the illusion federal spending is under control. Both President Joe Biden and Republican congressional leaders can claim victory and lull Americans into believing rising national debt is […]
Jim
Sorry to hear that the Grim Reaper has hit so hard
Jim
Excellent point on them just blurting out anything
Tom Blanton
I've been thinking that politicians debating
Tom Blanton
All of my life-long friends have passed away in th
John Walker
A great tribute to a life lived well and to a kins
