The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the covid-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom...
James Bovard
Raiding the World Bank: Exposing a Fondness for Dictators
by James Bovard | Dec 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
I have always had a bad attitude toward official secrets regardless of who is keeping them. That prejudice and John Kenneth Galbraith are to blame for an unauthorized withdrawal I made from the World Bank. When I lived in Boston in the late 1970s, I paid $25 to attend...
The DC Sniper Rampage: The Biggest Police Debacle of the Century?
by James Bovard | Dec 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
Those who forget police debacles could be the victims of the next law enforcement fiasco. Former Montgomery County, Maryland, police chief Charles Moose passed away on Thanksgiving Day. He became famous as the most prominent law enforcement official during a...
The Biden Crackdown on Thought Crimes
by James Bovard | Nov 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration is seeking to radically narrow the boundaries of respectable American political thought. The administration has repeatedly issued statements and reports that could automatically castigate citizens who distrust the federal government. We may...
Why Government Cover-Ups Succeed
by James Bovard | Oct 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
“It’s not necessary to censor the news, it’s sufficient to delay the news until it no longer matters,” Napoleon Bonaparte reportedly said. The same standard helps explain why Washington politicians and federal agencies usually get away with covering up their lies and...
My Time with the FBI
by James Bovard | Sep 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
From the early 1990s onward, I was exposing FBI crimes, lies, and cover-ups. FBI director Louis Freeh publicly denounced me after I wrote a Wall Street Journal piece on the FBI’s killing of an innocent mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. I continued...
Biden’s Wrecking Ball for Financial Privacy
by James Bovard | Sep 23, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration is seeking to compel banks to report to the IRS any bank account with more than $600 in transactions per year. This proposal is a linchpin of Biden’s American Families Plan, and will supposedly help generate almost $500 billion in federal...
Red Light Robberies Across America
by James Bovard | Sep 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Crime is surging in American cities, but the official data leave out the most frequent source of highway robberies. More than 400 cities have set up red light cameras that are institutionalized racketeering that subverts public safety. Tens of thousands of American...
Remember When Conservatives ‘Canceled’ Anyone against the War on Terror? I Do.
by James Bovard | Sep 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
Life in American changed twenty years ago after the 9/11 attacks. Many Americans became enraged at anyone who did not swear allegiance to President George W. Bush’s antiterrorism crusade. Anyone who denied “they hate us for our freedoms” automatically became an enemy...
Absolute Power Is No Covid Safety Net
by James Bovard | Aug 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown champions have perennially invoked “science and data” to sanctify any mandate politicians impose. Hard facts have recently shown that neither vaccines nor face masks provide surefire protection against the virus. But...
Kabul’s Collapse and DC’s Incurable Arrogance
by James Bovard | Aug 20, 2021 | Featured Articles
After the Taliban captured Kabul far faster than anyone in Washington forecast, secretary of state Tony Blinken went on Sunday morning talk shows and announced that the US mission in Afghanistan had been “successful.” Unfortunately, there will be plenty of robotic...
Pseudo-Omniscience Versus Freedom
by James Bovard | Aug 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
Shut up and submit” is now the favorite Covid cure of some of America’s leading progressives. Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist, revealed on Tuesday that since freedom is a mirage, people have no good reason not to comply with endless...
The Coming ‘January 6’ Train Wreck
by James Bovard | Jul 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
The January 6 Capitol clash may be the gift that keeps on giving to cynics everywhere. In the coming months, Americans will likely see jaw-dropping bureaucratic debacles, stunning abuses by federal prosecutors, and appalling bloodlust by angry Biden supporters....
No Victory Lap For Governors Who Locked Down America
by James Bovard | Jul 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
There are no fact-checkers for victory laps. Last week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo summarized his experience with the Covid-19 crisis: “Speaking for myself, it was a tremendous personal benefit.” Cuomo made that declaration in a speech concluding his one-year...
Can Mass Subjugation Save American Democracy?
by James Bovard | Jul 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
“Beatings will continue until morale improves” has morphed from an old joke to the latest prescription for national salvation. “Compulsory National Service Could Unite America,” whooped a New York Times Op-ed headline last week. Prominent media outlets, think tanks,...
The Deep State Defeat of Donald Trump
by James Bovard | Jun 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
“The Trump–Deep State clash is a showdown between a presidency that is far too powerful versus federal agencies that have become fiefdoms with immunity for almost any and all abuses,” I wrote in an FFF article a year ago. Since then, Donald Trump lost the 2020...
Defining Down Freedom
by James Bovard | Jun 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
Will the Great Pandemic permanently unleash governments around the world? Covid-19 is enabling politicians to turn freedom from an individual right into a conditional bureaucratic dispensation. Defining down freedom was exemplified by the G-7 Summit that became a...
Biden’s Buffoonish War On Extremism
by James Bovard | Jun 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration revealed on Tuesday that guys who can’t get laid may be terrorist threats due to “involuntary celibate–violent extremism.” That revelation is part of a new crackdown that identifies legions of potential “domestic terrorists” that the feds can...
Will Treason Mania Destroy America?
by James Bovard | Jun 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
At the start of the Biden era, America is being torn apart by more allegations of treason than at any time since the Civil War. Historian Henry Adams observed a century ago that politics “has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” And few things spur...
Will the Pandemic Promote Political Power in Perpetuity?
by James Bovard | May 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
“It’s like we created another industry in our state. The amount of money is staggering,” Andrew Schaufele, director of Maryland’s Bureau of Revenue Estimates, happily declared last week. The Biden stimulus plan is deluging governments across America with hundreds of...
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