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Biden and the Ghost of Duncan Lemp

American Conservative, March 1, 2024 Inside the Latest Biden Showdown With Second Amendment Devotees by James Bovard The White House’s anti-gun campaign threatens to repeat sins of law enforcement’s recent past.   “His name was Duncan Lemp” is a common phrase among violent extremists, according to the FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Symbols report. The Washington Post sneered […]

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Highway Robbery Is the Law of the Land

Highway Robbery Continues to Be the Law of the Land by James Bovard Seizure fever is toxifying law enforcement across the nation. For more than thirty years, federal, state, and local government agencies have plundered citizens on practically any harebrained accusation or pretext. You could be at risk of being pilfered by officialdom anytime you […]

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Debacles at Home and Abroad Propel ‘Defend the Guard’

Debacles at Home and Abroad Propel ‘Defend the Guard’ by Jim Bovard | Jan 30, 2024 The National Guard is back in the headlines thanks to a showdown at the Texas border and Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy debacle. The Biden administration has refused to enforce federal law to limit undocumented immigrants (many of whom […]

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Our Potemkin Presidency

Our Potemkin Presidency by James Bovard November 8, 2023 The Founding Fathers sought to create a government that would be under the law and under the Constitution. Since World War One, presidents have amassed far more arbitrary power to rule by decree. Every recent American commander-in-chief has expanded and exploited the dictatorial potential of the […]

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Congress’s Unconstitutional Pay Raise Scandal

Congress’s Unconstitutional Pay Raise Scandal James Bovard byOctober 27, 2023 “A good politician is almost as rare as an honest burglar,” once quipped H. L. Mencken. After the shenanigans around the latest congressional pay increase, America’s burglars should file a posthumous libel suit against Mencken for that disparaging comparison.If congressmen are not going to respect […]

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