Here’s an outtake from my New York Post YouTube video spurred by last week’s article – Is disinformation becoming simply another stick for rulers to use to flog citizens with? Politicians denouncing disinformation sounds better than proclaiming, ‘Shut up, peasants! But if politicians have no obligation to disclose how they use their power and can […]
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Hillary Clinton’s Sordid History of Secrecy and Censorship
Hillary Clinton’s Sordid History of Secrecy and Censorship by James Bovard, September 23, 2024 Libertarian Institute “You could drop Hillary into any trouble spot, come back in a month and…she will have made it better,” former President Bill Clinton declared in a 2016 speech championing his wife’s presidential candidacy. But Hillary’s entry into the brawls […]
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 […]
Talking Last Rights and Thumping Politicians on the Leighton Smith Podcast
Leighton Smith, a legendary radio host who now does the top podcast in New Zealand, and I had a rowdy 90 minute chat on American politics and lost freedoms this week. Leighton describes himself as a libertarian conservative and he has long followed political battles both in his country and in the U.S. It is […]
N.Y. Post: Biden – “Vote for Me or the Constitution Dies”
New York Post, July 3, 2024 Biden’s Supreme Court outburst revealed the falsehoods at the heart of his presidency by James Bovard “Vote for me or the Constitution dies” is President Biden’s latest pitch to revive his faltering re-election campaign. In four minutes of remarks Monday evening, he condemned a Supreme Court decision while signaling […]
COVID Tyranny and Merle Haggard’s Forgotten Warning
COVID Tyranny and Merle Haggard’s Forgotten Warning by Jim Bovard | Jul 1, 2024 Since the start of the COVID pandemic, many Americans have been appalled at the tidal wave of dictatorial and futile decrees that sought to vanquish a virus. Even more shocking was the craven response by many citizens who believed that groveling […]
Merle Haggard and the Lost “Free Life”
Merle Haggard and the Lost “Free Life” by James Bovard “Is the best of the free life behind us now?” Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 country music hit song. Nine years earlier, Haggard had scoffed at potheads and draft dodgers in a White House performance of his song “Okie from Muskogee” for President […]