New York Post, March 29, 2023 Is Biden, like past presidents, unleashing the IRS on his enemies? By James Bovard Journalist Matt Taibbi testified March 9 before a congressional committee on the vast federally funded “censorship-industrial complex” the Twitter Files exposed. That same day, an IRS agent swooped down on his New Jersey home. Maybe […]
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The Great TSA Cigar Cutter Robbery of 2018
On my way to Alabama last Thursday, the TSA pilfered a cigar cutter – the final absurdity of my visit with them that day. Here’s the story from my speech the following day at a Mises Institute conference – Here’s a link to a better quality video of that speech (I had to reformat the […]
The Continuing Forfeiture Scourge
From the Future of Freedom Foundation‘s Future of Freedom magazine – THE CONTINUING FORFEITURE SCOURGE by James Bovard A federal crime wave is sweeping the nation, and prosecutors and G-men could not be happier about it. The Wall Street Journal reported that government “forfeiture programs confiscated homes, cars, boats, and cash in more than 15,000 cases [in 2010]. […]