One Hundred Years of IRS Political Targeting by James Bovard, April 15, 2024 One hundred years ago, Senator James Couzens, a Michigan Republican, took to the Senate floor to denounce the Bureau of Internal Revenue for abusing its power and trampling innocent taxpayers. Couzens launched a sweeping Senate investigation of federal tax collectors. One year […]
Congress puts more nails in the constitutional coffin as it’s set to renew FISA by James Bovard Promising reforms is the easiest way to perpetuate abuses in Washington. For more than a decade, illegal federal-surveillance scandals have rocked the nation. Unfortunately, the House of Representatives will likely vote this week to continue letting the feds […]
The Never-Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree by James Bovard Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the National Security Agency to vacuum up trillions of emails and other data. A bevy of bipartisan members of […]
Truth Has No Chance on Capitol Hill by James Bovard | Mar 25, 2024 Americans are encouraged to believe that the U.S. Congress is practically on automatic pilot to serve the public. Happily, most Americans are not so gullible and Congress receives much of the contempt it deserves in public opinion polls. But the media […]
New York Post, March 13, 2023 Dems turn Biden-documents hearing into 3 Stooges theater By James Bovard Special Counsel Robert Hur was in the hot seat for four hours Tuesday as President Biden’s congressional allies sought to destroy him for doubting Biden’s intellect. They had no case. And instead, they turned the event into Three […]
Mises Institute, January 25, 2024 Biden and Forgotten Federal Financial Tyranny by James Bovard Americans were jolted last week to learn that the Joe Biden administration viewed purchasing a Bible as a potential terrorist warning sign. Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, revealed that the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network […]
New York Post, December 14, 2023 Congress wants to unleash federal spies at your hotel and coffee shop by James Bovard Americans have learned in the last five years of one scandal after another the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act enabled. The FBI exploited FISA to illegally spy on the Trump presidential campaign and to wrongfully […]
James
James, I respectfully feel you are misrepresenting
R R Schoettker
The plain fact and simple reality of ‘rulershipâ
Tj
So what did you do to your neighbor's cat????
Jim
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