From my 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes Interview with Brian Lamb: “So when you go through that TSA checkpoint, you don’t feel any safer? Bovard: “No, I don’t feel any safer. The chance of me being arrested are a lot higher than they were before 9/11.”
Tag Archives | freedom of speech
Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court
VIDEO VERSION OF THIS STORY HERE Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court by James Bovard, August 31, 2026 The Trump administration’s crusade to crush campus criticism took another wallop on Friday in a California courtroom. Federal judge Noël Wise ruled that the Trump administration’s “ideological-deportation policy” brazenly violated the U.S. Constitution. The Stanford […]
Another Federal War on Free Speech
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 […]
Trump Administration Vanishing People in America: Ozturk Update
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. […]
N.Y. Post: Hillary Clinton, queen of disinformation, issues two-faced call for censorship
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 […]
Whooping Up Free Speech on the Brian Wilson Podcast
From the Brian Wilson Writes Substack: The beloved “Two and Only” return for a look at what’s left of the First Amendment, how it’s being abused, what Jim Bovard plans to do about it and how you can help! Listen by clicking here
N.Y. Post: Biden censors battered — expect an epic Supreme Court showdown
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 […]
R R Schoettker
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
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Alan Strange
Great video, visited there a few years back to pay