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WSJ: How I Learned Not to Shovel (2011)

Fifteen years ago today, the Wall Street Journal published my memoir story on how the Virginia Highway Department ruined my work ethic for life. .  That job taught me more about political economy than I ever learned in a classroom.  The photo isn’t me – I doubt the highway department would have kept such photos […]

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Dilbert vs. Leviathan: Scott Adams’s Greatest Hits

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.  

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Will Trump Get Evicted from Supreme Court Like I Did?

President Trump is going to listen to a case argued today at the Supreme Court. When I went to that court to cover a case for Playboy, I was ejected from the press box because I laughed at the wrong time. My @washingtonpost  piece on the episode Washington Post, May 3, 2017 Arresting someone for laughing […]

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My 2025 Epigrams: Cynicism Redeemed

Cynicism Redeemed: My 2025 Epigrams by James Bovard 2025 was another great year for scoffing at politicians and Washington. Here are some of the zestiest lines from articles I wrote last year. Trump Returns “Trump’s economic victory proclamations are akin to a bad magician whose tricks are so lame that his audience starts to heckle […]

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N.Y. Post: The Joy of Dilbert

I will post a link to the online version of the text when it goes live at the New York Post webpage. I will also be making & posting a video with comments on some of my fav Dilbert strips. Here’s the piece: Opinion PostScript The joy of Dilbert: Scott Adams brightened our lives by […]

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My 46 Years Contempt of Congress

  My 46 Years of Contempt of Congress 07/15/2025 • Mises Wire • by James Bovard “Those bastards didn’t send back my article! Now I have to re-type the whole piece before I can submit it somewhere else!” I growled standing by the apartment cluster mailbox on a sultry afternoon of July 3, 1979. “Did […]

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Comic Recap of Harris Train Wreck and Trump Forecast – Alan Mosley Podcast

Alan Mosley and I had a hoot recapping the Great Biden-Harris Train Wreck of 2024 and the boundless arrogance of the Democratic Party bosses on his “It’s Too Late” podcast. We also bantered about what to expect from Trump, America’s foreign conflicts, and the controversy over Libertarian Party support for non-libertarians. Here are a few […]

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