Federal judge orders Trump administration to release Tufts University grad student Rumeysa Ozturk from ICE lockup. Ozturk, who had a valid student visa from Turkey, was only guilty of writing an op-ed. Secretary of State Marco Rubio vilified her and Department of Homeland Security officials claimed Ozturk had other sweeping offenses, including that she “engaged […]
Ryan McMaken and I had fun smacking the Trump administration for sending 6 masked federal agents to seize a Turkish grad student to punish her for writing an op-ed. Is this case the bellwether for a sweeping crackdown on free speech – first with foreign students, & then American citizens? Trump, discussing the protests over […]
Zero Hedge, April 18, 2025 Bovard Warns Conservatives, Libertarians Over Foreign Student Persecution Cases Authored by Jim Bovard “If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion,” economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 foreword to his 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom. Hayek’s insight could be the Rosetta Stone […]
Sacrificing Truth on Leviathan’s Altar by James Bovard, February 19, 2025 Last Sunday, 60 Minutes featured tyrannical German prosecutors boasting about persecuting private citizens who made comments that officialdom disapproved. Three prosecutors explained how the government was entitled to launch pre-dawn raids and lock up individuals who criticized politicians, complained about immigrant crime waves, or […]
Forty Years Bashing the National Endowment for Democracy by Jim Bovard | Feb 4, 2025 On Sunday, Elon Musk posted on X: After that merciless arm-twisting, I have no choice but to recap my National Endowment for Democracy bashes going back to shortly after it was launched in 1983. In a November 29, 1985 piece […]
Will Any Federal Officials Pay for What They Did? By James Bovard  January 24, 2025  The biggest scientific con of the century is finally being exposed. But will any politicians or government officials ever be held responsible for the carnage they unleashed on Americans? In early 2020, when the Covid pandemic was starting […]
Biden’s Legacy: Covid Persecution, Censorship, and Across-the-Board Oppression By James Bovard  January 19, 2025  Government, Law, Media  10 minute read Joe Biden’s presidency ends on January 20, 2025. There will likely be a media stampede to hallow his reign and trumpet his virtues. But Biden perpetually trampled his January 20, 2021, oath […]
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So what did you do to your neighbor's cat????
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