Another Federal War on Free Speech by James Bovard “If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion,” economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 foreword to his 1944 classic The Road to Serfdom. Hayek’s insight could be the Rosetta Stone for understanding the Trump administration’s zealotry […]
UPDATE: Trump administration flip-flops on mass cancellation of foreign student visas. This is a prudent decision but another huge unforced error by the Trump team. via New York Times: Friday marks one month since six masked federal agents seized Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. […]
New York Post, September 18, 2024 Hillary Clinton, queen of disinformation, issues two-faced call for censorship by James Bovard Amidst all the shocks of the 2024 presidential race, who expected Hillary Clinton to ride in like Joan of Arc to rescue truth — or at least to call for the crushing of government critics? On […]
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New York Post, August 13, 2023 Biden censors battered — expect an epic Supreme Court showdown By James Bovard Federal judges hammered fresh nails into the coffin of the Biden censorship regime Thursday in New Orleans. The thrashing the administration received will likely set up an epic Supreme Court battle that could help redefine freedom […]
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 […]
Mises Institute, April 17, 2023 Endangering Washington’s Divine Right to Deceive by James Bovard Do Americans have the right to know if the $100 billion in their tax dollars that the Biden administration is delivering to Ukraine is being wasted? No, according to the U.S. Congress – which recently voted against creating an Inspector General […]
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956):
“Nobody ever went
R R Schoettker
The utter impotent uselessness of the US congress
Texas Dan
If Waco didn't wake you up, nothing would/wil
R R Schoettker
The US congress ceased fulfilling its constitution
