Today is the 80th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s “economic bill of rights” speech. Here are some pieces I wrote on that buncombe: RealClearHistory – January 6, 2023 – FDR’s Corrupt Concept of Freedom FDR’s Worst Perversion of Freedom: The “Four Freedoms” Speech Tags U.S. History 01/17/2019James Bovard Mises Institute Franklin Roosevelt did more than any […]
New York Post, May 24, 2023 IRS coverup of Hunter Biden could be scandal that sinks a presidency by James Bovard In his “Beautiful Things” memoir, Hunter Biden wrote: “I still have a ton of work to do . . . clearing the wreckage of my past.” And Attorney General Merrick Garland is just the […]
American Institute for Economic Research, August 13, 2021 Nixon’s Gold Treachery Made Me a Cynic James Bovard Fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. government would cease honoring its pledge to pay gold to redeem the dollars held by foreign central banks. Nixon declared he was taking “action […]
American Institute for Economic Research, May 10, 2011 Biden’s “America the Beautiful” Vision Ignores Feds’ Dreadful Record by James Bovard Will Biden’s “America the Beautiful” program save America’s environment? On January 27, President Joe Biden issued an executive order proclaiming “the goal of conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.” […]
Daily Caller, May 6, 2021 BOVARD: The Coming IRS Reign Of Terror James Bovard Contributor The power to tax has long conferred the power to destroy political opponents. But in the glorious era of President Joe Biden, all previous cases of government abuse of power are being expunged, at least by the media and Biden […]
Today is the anniversary of one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s worst infamies – his confiscation of privately-owned gold. I wrote the following article in 1999 for Sheldon Richman at the Foundation for Economic Education. This article was a spinoff of Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (St. […]
American Conservative, December 18, 2020 Biden’s ‘Will of the People’ Malarkey Generations of presidents have cited “the will of the people” to legitimize power grabs. The Founding Fathers wouldn’t approve. by James Bovard In his cough-ridden victory speech Monday night, President-elect Joe Biden proclaimed again that “the will of the people prevailed” in the 2020 […]
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