TRUMP’S WAR ON TRUTH TELLERS By James Bovard Some folks who know my work presume that I am implacably opposed to all federal agencies. Not true. I have always appreciated federal agencies who exposed the waste, fraud, abuse, and brazen lies committed by politicians and bureaucrats. The Trump administration has warred against such truth tellers […]
Waco and the Death of Congressional Oversight by James Bovard, July 22, 2025 How many atrocities can the federal government get away with? Americans are still vexed by the answers that Congress failed to deliver in 1995. Thirty summers ago, Washington was fixated by a Capitol Hill showdown over the greatest federal abuse of power […]
Trump bombs Iran to prove his devotion to peace. Trump supporters break all their previous records on groveling
Forty Years Bashing the National Endowment for Democracy by Jim Bovard | Feb 4, 2025 On Sunday, Elon Musk posted on X: After that merciless arm-twisting, I have no choice but to recap my National Endowment for Democracy bashes going back to shortly after it was launched in 1983. In a November 29, 1985 piece […]
My old friend Ernest Hancock, Arizona’s legendary libertarian hell-raiser, and I had fun smacking around the latest Washington scandals and speculating on what the Trump administration will do. I started out by admitting that I felt guilty for the fact that Ernie did not personally receive a January 6 pardon from Donald Trump. Ernie is […]
For Inauguration Day, Open Federal Files and Give Truth a Chance by James Bovard, January 20, 2025 Federal agencies classify trillions of pages of documents each year—enough secrets to fill 20 million filing cabinets. Washington politicians and federal agencies routinely blindfold American citizens on the most important and most reckless decisions the government takes. As […]
Discussing my New York Post piece today, we had a rowdy smackdown of federal agencies who covered up their role in the Covid lab leak and the pandemic that killed a million Americans. Fun with @RitaCosby& @JCats2013 on @77WABCradio You can listen to the MP3 of the interview here https://wabcradio.com/episode/ny-post-reporter-james-bovard-the-big-covid-cover-up-that-trump-will-hopefully-expose-12-27-24/
Tennessee Budd
You forgot the lie of 1861. Some Americans, seeing
