IS COVER-UP OF EPSTEIN’S FINANCIAL CRIMES FINALLY COLLAPSING? By James Bovard In 2025, the Justice Department declared that billionaire Jeffrey “Epstein harmed over one thousand victims” – mostly young females, many of them underage. But a dozen years before his suspicious death in a New York prison cell, Epstein “was granted immunity from federal charges, […]
My 46 Years of Contempt of Congress 07/15/2025 • Mises Wire • by James Bovard “Those bastards didn’t send back my article! Now I have to re-type the whole piece before I can submit it somewhere else!” I growled standing by the apartment cluster mailbox on a sultry afternoon of July 3, 1979. “Did […]
Counterpunch, July 2, 2025 The Good Intentions Road to Tyranny James Bovard Facebook Twitter Reddit Bluesky Email “He who saves his country violates no law,” tweeted President Trump in February. He was echoing a line often attributed to Napoleon. His supporters were electrified by Trump’s tacit invocation of a right to boundless power. The Trump […]
Trump Freezes Foreign Aid Frauds by James Bovard, Libertarian Institute January 29, 2025 The Trump administration suspended top officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development earlier this week. The move, labeled a “Monday afternoon massacre,” was spurred by allegations that top USAID officials were circumventing President Trump’s ninety day freeze on foreign aid disbursements. […]
Why Trump Routed the D.C. Establishment, Again 11/07/2024 • Mises Wire • James Bovard After the media complained nonstop for months about Donald Trump offering a dark message on the presidential campaign trail, a New York Times headline bewailed his election victory on Wednesday morning: “America Hires a Strongman.” So anyone who cast a ballot […]
Do I Look Like a Russian Propagandist? James Bovard , American Conservative Oct 31, 2024 5:00 PM Getting online Thursday morning, I did the usual Google vanity search. I was mystified to see a link for a hit piece by the Atlantic Council, a top DC think tank funded by the U.S. State Department, foreign […]
FOXNEWS.COM, October 24, 2024 McDonald’s controversy shows media’s ‘You deserve a break today’ approach to Kamala by James Bovard Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are sparring over whether Harris ever worked at a McDonald’s restaurant during her college years. This dispute reveals the standard of proof the media will henceforth use if Harris wins […]
