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New York Post: Biden in Denial on Inflation Crisis

New York Post, June 11, 2022 Joe Schmo a ‘soar’ loser: Biden in denial amid inflation crisis By James Bovard “‘We’ve never seen anything like Putin’s tax on both food and gas,” President Biden blathered yesterday after another disastrous report on soaring inflation. But almost nobody outside the Beltway believes that Putin is to blame […]

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Will Punch-Drunk Biden Take America Down with Him?

Mises Institute, June 8, 2022 Will Punch-Drunk Biden Take America Down with Him? by James Bovard President Biden often looks like a punch-drunk old fighter sent into the ring once too often. At this point, the only thing lower than Biden’s approval numbers is his energy level. Is Uncle Joe too old to rebound? At […]

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Bashing Warmongering and Secrecy on Chicago Radio with Shaun Thompson

Shaun Thompson and I had a rollicking chat today on Chicago’s The Answer AM 560.   We talked about the recent Supreme Court decision permitting the CIA to invoke “State Secrets” to keep its torture site in Poland secrecy.   The Presidential Records Act cover-up of presidential records took a beating, along with former presidents who got […]

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Bashing the World Bank on Chicago Radio MP3

Radio host Shaun Thompson and I had fun lambasting the World Bank and big-spending U.S. politicians on his show on AM560 in Chicago. Thompson, the host of “The Liberty Hour” program, especially despises Keynesian type economic policies that pretend endless government spending will make everyone rich – eventually.  I especially appreciated his kind words for […]

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New York Post: Will Inflation Bankrupt Joe Biden?

New York Post, January 24, 2022 Inflation only goes up and will bankrupt Joe Biden and the Democrats By James Bovard In his victory lap at his marathon press conference last week, President Joe Biden boasted that “I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen” and “I have gotten the critical crises out of […]

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My Two-Bit Political Awakening

My Two-Bit Political Awakening by James Bovard Samuel Johnson may have been wrong when he declared, “There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.” But for young kids, collecting coins is a less pernicious pastime than becoming a pyromaniac or Tik-Tok star. My own experience collecting, […]

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