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Did the IRS Manipulate the 2020 Election?

Did the IRS Manipulate the 2020 Election? by James Bovard | Sep 9, 2024 Hunter Biden pled guilty on Thursday to a barrage of federal tax crimes. But will the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department ever plead guilty to stealing the 2020 election for Joe Biden? In 2023, the IRS assessed 18,599,109 penalties on […]

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Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect

Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect James Bovard, August 12, 2024 Americans are familiar with the Miranda warning that anything that arrestees say can be used against them in a court of law. But the Biden administration secretly created a new tripwire: Anything you purchase can be used against you. And if you didn’t […]

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Jousting with Secret Service Debacles on the Brian Wilson Podcast

PODCAST ALERT VIA BRIAN WILSON: “The Two and Only, talk show legend Brian Wilson and best selling scribbler James Bovard, take on Secret Service Incompetence or FBI Non Compos Mentis? A distinction without a difference!” Brian Wilson opened the show by quipping that there “are only 110 long, hard, grueling days left to sharpen your […]

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N.Y. Post: Hunter Biden verdict shatters family’s myth of legal invincibility, endangering Joe

New York Post, June 12, 2024 Hunter Biden verdict shatters family’s myth of legal invincibility, endangering Joe by James Bovard President Biden’s re-election campaign was hit by a torpedo Tuesday when a Delaware jury convicted his son Hunter on three felony charges. Ironically, the political fate of the most anti-gun president in American history could […]

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Time to Separate Piety and Politics

Time to Separate Piety and Politics by James Bovard The First Amendment of the Constitution specifies, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” In Washington, the “free exercise thereof” perennially includes politicians exploiting religion to sanctify themselves and all their power grabs. It would take divine […]

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Sen. Bob Graham, 9/11, and the Mirage of American Democracy

Senator Bob Graham, 9/11, and the Mirage of American Democracy  by James Bovard Former Senator Bob Graham passed away on April 16 at the age of 87. Graham had been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Iraq War, but his brightest legacy was his perennial fight against the George W. Bush administration’s cover-up […]

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Is Censorship the Biden Era’s Torture Issue?

American Conservative, April 11, 2024 Is Censorship the Biden Era’s Torture Issue? by James Bovard The word games around “content moderation” recall the days of “enhanced interrogation.” During last month’s Supreme Court hearing on a landmark case on federal censorship, Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson declared, “My biggest concern is…the First Amendment hamstringing the government […]

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