To serve and protect, police are allowed to slander and destroy. Cops in many states and localities have acquired the right to lie about their shootings, searches, and practically anything else. Police have routinely planted drugs, guns, and other evidence to...
James Bovard
TSA Tyranny Goes Cutesy
by James Bovard | Sep 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
In the glorious age of the Kamala Ascendency, the TSA is no longer restraining its contempt for American travelers. After squeezing millions of butts and boobs and never catching a terrorist, TSA decided to have fun by taunting its victims. After a traveler...
Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect
by James Bovard | Aug 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Americans are familiar with the Miranda warning that anything that arrestees say can be used against them in a court of law. But the Biden administration secretly created a new tripwire: Anything you purchase can be used against you. And if you didn’t want to be...
Biden’s parting deluge of deceit deserves damning
by James Bovard | Jul 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
In a mere 11 minutes on Wednesday night, President Biden settled any doubts about whether he was fit for another four years of the presidency. Uncle Joe wrestled with the teleprompter like a slacker high school boy blindsided by trigonometry questions on the...
The Never-Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree
by James Bovard | Mar 28, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the National Security Agency to vacuum up trillions of emails and other data. A bevy of...
Highway Robbery Continues to Be the Law of the Land
by James Bovard | Feb 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
Seizure fever is toxifying law enforcement across the nation. For more than thirty years, federal, state, and local government agencies have plundered citizens on practically any harebrained accusation or pretext. You could be at risk of being pilfered by officialdom...
Will TSA Steal Your Mug?
by James Bovard | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
Dorothy Parker’s signature line, “What fresh hell is this?” is the new mantra for travelers at American airports. TSA is rapidly expanding a program in which travelers stand in photo kiosks that compare their faces with a federal database of photos from passport...
The Iraq War Was a Systematic Atrocity
by James Bovard | Jul 29, 2023 | Featured Articles
Media coverage of the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War mostly portrayed the war as a blunder. There were systematic war crimes that have largely vanished into the memory hole, but permitting government officials to vaporize their victims paves the...
Defining Dictator Down Won’t Make Us Free
by James Bovard | Jun 22, 2023 | Featured Articles
For 27 seconds on Tuesday night, Fox News posted a chyiron beneath a video of President Biden: “Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested.” That sparked a media uproar over what was portrayed as the biggest breach of decorum...
Snowden and the Fight for American Privacy
by James Bovard | Jun 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
Edward Snowden did heroic service in awakening Americans to Washington ravishing their privacy. Snowden’s “reward” is to be banished in Russia without a snowball’s chance in hell of a fair trial if he returns to America. But as he courageously declared, “I would...
Endangering Washington's Divine Right to Deceive
by James Bovard | Apr 18, 2023 | Featured Articles
Do Americans have the right to know if the $100 billion in their tax dollars that the Biden administration is delivering to Ukraine is being wasted? No, according to the U.S. Congress - which recently voted against creating an Inspector General to investigate whether...
Presidents Are Legally Immune for Their Most Dangerous Crimes
by James Bovard | Apr 11, 2023 | Featured Articles
Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has charged former president Donald Trump with thirty-four felonies tied to his payments to two women prior to the 2016 election. Some pundits are outraged that a former president is facing charges, and others are jubilant that...
Democrats champion censorship and smear Twitter files heroes
by James Bovard | Mar 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing Thursday on the Twitter Files, which are exposing pervasive federal browbeating to suppress free speech. Congressional Democrats championed the National Lampoon definition of...
Biden Weaponizes Hate to Win Votes
by James Bovard | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured Articles
Historian Henry Adams observed a century ago that politics “has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” President Biden confirmed this axiom in his raging speeches prior to the mid-term congressional elections. Throughout his career, Biden has relied on a...
Julian Assange and Our Impunity Democracy
by James Bovard | Oct 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
On Saturday, protests supporting Julian Assange will occur around the world. In London, Assange supporters will link arms around the parliament building. Protests will also occur outside the Justice Department headquarters in Washington (I’ll be one of the speakers),...
Lessons from Biden’s Disinformation Board Debacle
by James Bovard | Sep 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
President Biden’s campaign to banish (or maybe outlaw) political paranoia took a wallop last spring. In April, the Department of Homeland Security proudly announced that it had created a new Disinformation Governance Board. The following month, the board’s chairman...
Did the FBI Swing the 2020 Election?
by James Bovard | Aug 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
Joe Biden won the 2020 election as a result of 43,000 votes in three states. The election was far closer than the media has usually admitted. There were plenty of dubious factors that could have tipped the scales for a Biden victory, including machinations by the...
Will Punch-Drunk Biden Take America Down with Him?
by James Bovard | Jun 9, 2022 | Featured Articles
President Biden often looks like a punch-drunk old fighter sent into the ring once too often. At this point, the only thing lower than Biden’s approval numbers is his energy level. Is Uncle Joe too old to rebound? At this point, Biden is running on little more than...
The Latest Media Assault on Freedom
by James Bovard | May 10, 2022 | Featured Articles
Prominent journalists are calling for the media to champion a “pro-democracy” bias in how they portray politicians and government agencies. But tub-thumping for democracy — or at least for politicians who claim to be pro-democracy — is a poor substitute for exposing...
The Supreme Court Uses Twisted Logic to Protect US Agents Committing Torture
by James Bovard | Mar 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than a form of legal mumbo-jumbo to...
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