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Liberals’ Love Affair with Leviathan

Liberals’ Love Affair with Leviathan by James Bovard February 18, 2022 The election of Joe Biden as president magically transformed all federal agencies, ensuring that their iron fists no longer posed any peril to the American people. Or at least that seems to be what many Biden supporters, liberals, and Democrats now believe.Shutting down entire […]

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New York Post: Trudeau’s Iron Fist Flattens Canadian Freedom

New York Post, February 15, 2022 Justin Trudeau’s Canadian injustice is just a naked grab for power By James Bovard To save Canadian democracy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must first destroy it.  Since the start of the pandemic, Trudeau has acted like COVID entitled him to unlimited power in the name of public safety — […]

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My C-SPAN Interview and Transcript on Covid Pandemic Security Theater

Here’s the video of my interview this morning on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on the failure of Covid Pandemic Security Theater. Destroying freedom dismally failed to keep Americans safe. Politicians and bureaucrats need to be held responsible for the wreckage the federal, state, and local govts. inflicted over the past 2 years. Here’s the link – […]

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USA Today: How The Feds Turned Covid Testing Into a Fiasco

USA TODAY,  January 27, 2022 Who screwed up COVID-19 testing? Blame Trump, Biden and our health care bureaucracy. Under Donald Trump, the CDC sent out poorly designed, contaminated tests that recorded false readings. Under Joe Biden, testing is still in shambles. James Bovard Opinion columnist On a bitter cold afternoon last Friday, lines of people […]

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My Tribute to H.L. Mencken – Mises Podcast

Mises Institute President Jeff Deist and I had a rollicking discussion yesterday on H.L. Mencken.  Here’s the summary from the Mises website: “HL Mencken is the writer you need to read immediately. He was savagely brilliant, caustic, and witty, but also prolific across genres in ways almost unthinkable of journalists today. His skill with the […]

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Recent Bovard Freedom Quote JPEGs

Here’s a round-up of some JPEGS with my quotes from the last year or so.  Thanks to everyone who made these images – including Bryan Baucom, Tony Smith, Bob Smilie, Natalie Fawn Danelishen, Frank Monaco, Libquotes.com, and the various Internet quote sites.  If you made one of these quote Jpegs and I neglected to include […]

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9/11: How George W. Bush Redefined American Freedom

  Future of Freedom Foundation, September 2009 How George W. Bush Redefined American Freedom by James Bovard George W. Bush is gone from Washington but his legacy, like an abandoned toxic waste dump, lingers on. Like President Franklin Roosevelt before him, President Bush helped redefine American freedom. And like Roosevelt’s, Bush’s changes were perversions of […]

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