LISTEN TO NEW YORK POST AUDIO VERSION: New York Post, July 6, 2023 Biden admin thinks it has divine right to nix conservatives’ free speech rights By James Bovard When did the Biden administration become infallible with a divine right to nullify the free speech of conservatives? On July 4, federal Judge Terry Doughty condemned […]
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N.Y. Post: Washington throws a pity party for federal censors finally being investigated
New York Post, June 8, 2023 Washington throws a pity party for federal censors finally being investigated by James Bovard Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the pious masthead motto The Washington Post adopted in the Trump era. But in the Biden era, the Post sees censorship as the salvation of self-government. Censorship requires secrecy to […]
N.Y. Post: Private-federal censorship machine targeted TRUE ‘misinformation’
New York Post, March 18, 2023 Private-federal censorship machine targeted TRUE ‘misinformation’ By James Bovard Did you make any “worrisome jokes” about the Biden administration’s proposal to send agents door-to-door to browbeat people to get COVID vaccines? Then you were a public enemy guilty of spreading dangerous disinformation. Did you ask questions about COVID policy? […]
New York Times: The ‘Of Course’ Curse (1983)
Thirty-five years ago, the New York Times published this satirical piece inspired by editors who stuck lame-assed nitwit phrases into my articles. Happily, I have had no reason to complain about editors since then. Admittedly, it is difficult to find editors who will tolerate “bedamned” in articles these days. The article was accepted by Robert […]