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Fauci Returns: My Best Hits on the Super-Savior Scientist

Anthony Fauci testified before Rand Paul’s Senate Committee today.  In lieu of explaining how he used his power, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.  This isn’t the end of the story.    Below are some of the pieces I wrote on him since the start of the Covid era. New York Post, […]

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Are You on a Secret TSA Watchlist?

Are You On a Secret TSA Watchlist? By James Bovard In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized in that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence.” Unless federal agents secretly disapprove of you, your beliefs, or your suspected connections. Or unless those agents are feeling ornery and […]

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N.Y. Post: Tame the TSA

\ nypost.com There’s only one way to end TSA’s political weaponization of surveillance James Bovard Only in Washington would an edict to banish all dissidents be labeled Operation Freedom to Breathe. The Transportation Security Administration in 2021 created a secret watchlist of individuals who publicly opposed President Joe Biden’s COVID mask mandate.  Operation Freedom to […]

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Nikki Haley, Authoritarian-in-Waiting

American Conservative, January 31, 2024 Nikki Haley, Authoritarian-in-Waiting by James Bovard New advertisements from the Nikki Haley presidential campaign are touting the former South Carolina governor as the “better choice” for America. In a season in which the Biden re-election campaign is openly comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, Haley is increasingly portrayed as someone […]

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