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Will the Feds Kill Your Bank Account?

Will the Feds Kill Your Bank Account? by James Bovard A new federal report  confirms that the Biden administration secretly connived to destroy Americans’ financial freedom. Those bureaucrats were upholding hallowed precedents stretching back to the Nixon era, when Congress passed the Bank Secrecy Act. That law made it a crime for banks to keep […]

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Trump the Crazy Cultural Commissar

Trump the Crazy Cultural Commissar By James Bovard President Trump signaled that he is entitled to raze the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if he is not permitted to add his name to the building’s front wall.   Trump’s appointees to the center’s board of trustees rubber-stamped adding Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center. After […]

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Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court

  VIDEO VERSION OF THIS STORY HERE Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court by James Bovard, August 31, 2026 The Trump administration’s crusade to crush campus criticism took another wallop on Friday in a California courtroom. Federal judge Noël Wise ruled that the Trump administration’s “ideological-deportation policy” brazenly violated the U.S. Constitution. The Stanford […]

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WSJ 1992: NAFTA Sowed the Seeds of Trump’s Trade Wars

OTD 34 years ago, I warned: “Pandering to protectionists is poisoning the North American Free Trade Agreement.” NAFTA’s managed trade squabbles sowed the seeds for future trade wars. Trump vindicated this article. Wall Street Journal, July 31, 1992: “Free trade is not complex; it does not require an army of bureaucrats to define and re-define […]

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