On this day in 2012, Barron’s published my guest editorial on “Potomac River Blindness” – Washington’s bipartisan conspiracy against prosperity and freedom. In the subsequent 14 years, politicians and the federal government have become far more wasteful & ruinous. “Washingtonians view each billion dollars of government spending as magic beans that automatically sow blessings across […]
A New Golden Age of HUD Hokum by James Bovard The Trump administration effectively condemned the downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), portraying it as unfit for federal workers. HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced: “It is time to turn the page on the Weaver Building and relocate to […]
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 […]
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