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Will Trump Follow Nixon’s IRS Road to Ruin?

Will Trump Follow Nixon’s IRS Road to Ruin? by James Bovard, May 8, 2025 On Friday morning, President Trump proclaimed on his Truth Social: “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Trump is being hailed as a hero for demanding that the IRS bring Harvard University to […]

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Feds Have Been Main Source of Racial Bigotry in Classrooms

The Feds Have Been the Main Source of Racial Bigotry in Classrooms by James Bovard, March 18, 2025 “We will not stand idly by while this regime pulls the wool over the eyes of the American people,” proclaimed Sheria Smith, the president of American Federation of Government Employees unit representing more than a thousand federal […]

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Draining the Swamp Podcast

Richard Morrison of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and I smacked around the feds and bantered over the prospects for Trump, Musk, DOGE, and ever putting a leash on federal agencies.   https://x.com/JimBovard/status/1877422695073058948

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My Tenth Depraved Presidential Election

Libertarian Institute My Tenth Depraved Presidential Election by James Bovard, October 9, 2024 Presidential season is a time for Americans to restore their faith in democracy. How can folks not be filled with gratitude for being permitted a perfunctory choice of who will seize their paychecks and tyrannize them in the following four years? Actually, […]

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The Mirage of Honest Government

The Mirage of Honest Government by James Bovard, October 7, 2024 For more than 70 years, America has been on the verge of honest government. In election after election, politicians have promised to finally take this nation to the moral high ground once and for all. In 1952, Dwight Eisenhower captured the presidency based in […]

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‘Trump-Washing’ U.S. History Endangers Our Freedom

‘Trump-Washing’ U.S. History Endangers Our Freedom by James Bovard, October 1, 2024 Kamala Harris seeks to capture the White House with a message built on vaporous “positive vibes” and “joy.” The Harris campaign is bolstering that message by portraying Donald Trump as a deadly peril to democracy unprecedented in American history. The former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), […]

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Kamala and the Deadly Perils of Sham Idealism

Kamala and the Deadly Perils of Sham Idealism by James Bovard As the presidential race enters the final stretch, politicians are recycling the usual cons to make people believe this election will be different. At last week’s Democratic National Convention, sham idealism had a starring role, accompanied by ritual denunciations of cynicism. But idealism has […]

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