Will the Feds Kill Your Bank Account? by James Bovard A new federal report confirms that the Biden administration secretly connived to destroy Americans’ financial freedom. Those bureaucrats were upholding hallowed precedents stretching back to the Nixon era, when Congress passed the Bank Secrecy Act. That law made it a crime for banks to keep […]
After the 9/11 attacks, Congress rushed to enact the Patriot Act, vastly expanding federal surveillance of American citizens. The Patriot Act Pandora’s Box has unleashed far more attacks on Americans’ privacy, rights, and liberties than the feds have admitted.
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 […]
Consenting to Endless Coercion by James Bovard Presidents perennially claim that they possess their power thanks to “the consent of the governed.” This phrase, a signature line of the Declaration of Independence, has echoed in official declarations ever since Jefferson’s time. President Harry Truman assured Congress in 1952, “No government can be invested with a […]
Scott Adams, the cartoonist who gave Dilbert to the world, passed away in January after a hard fight against cancer. His glorious BS radar deserves to be prominently displayed in the Smithsonian Institute. No one had a sharper ear than Adams for contemporary American bloviating.
Also posted on Zero Hedge, Counterpunch, Eurasia Review, etc. Libertarian Institute, March 23, 2026 The Late Robert Mueller, Bill of Rights Executioner by James Bovard Obituaries on eminent Washingtonians usually omit the dreadful precedents they set that will vex Americans long after their death. Not this piece. Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week […]
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 […]
Jim
Excellent point on the credentials. Always sad wh
R R Schoettker
Thanks for the transcript. The ‘show me your cre
R R Schoettker
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Joe Blow
You're partly right. Liberal college educated
R R Schoettker
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