President Biden’s first speech to Congress last night hit all the pandemic hot buttons. Even though most members of Congress are vaccinated, all of the 200 attendees in the Capitol were required to wear masks and “socially distance.” The Hill reports that the “...
James Bovard
Lockdowns Wrecked Democracy around the World
by James Bovard | Mar 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
While the number of fatalities attributed to Covid-19 is carefully tracked by governments, few people have recognized how pandemic-spurred crackdowns have devastated democracy around the world. Emergency proclamations have entitled presidents and other government...
Is the US Going the Way of Afghanistan?
by James Bovard | Feb 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
Acrimony and recriminations continue to swirl around the 2020 presidential election. Three out of four Republicans believe that there was “widespread fraud” in the election, while Democrats have sought to turn criticisms of the election into a “Big Lie” heresy against...
Cuomo and the Failure of Covid Absolutism
by James Bovard | Feb 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is falling from grace at epic speed. His administration is now the target of a Justice Department probe for policies that resulted in the death of one out of eight nursing home residents in the state. Regardless of whether the New York...
The Biggest Lies of the Impeachment Saga
by James Bovard | Feb 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Senate impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump confirms historian Henry Adams's adage a century ago that politics “has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” The impeachment process was a farce that should fortify Americans’ disdain for...
Troop Deployments in Washington Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen
by James Bovard | Feb 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
“Tyranny in form is the first step towards tyranny in substance,” warned Senator John Taylor two hundred years ago in his forgotten classic, Tyranny Unmasked. As the massive National Guard troop deployment in Washington enters its second month, much of the media and...
The TSA’s New Mask Mandate
by James Bovard | Feb 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Transportation Security Administration announced last week that it will be fining travelers up to $1,500 for failing to wear a proper facemask. The TSA could also heavily fine people for wearing a facemask improperly and maybe also for some other offenses the...
Masking America’s Greatest Natural Monuments
by James Bovard | Feb 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration just issued an edict that will spur endless pointless conflicts for Americans seeking to peacefully enjoy hundreds of national parks. On Groundhog Day, the National Park Service (NPS) mandated wearing face masks on all National Park Service...
In a Paranoid Nation, ‘Treason’ Is Everywhere
by James Bovard | Jan 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
FBI agents across the nation are tracking down and arresting Trump supporters who walked into the US Capitol during the January 6 protest that turned into a brawl. Scores of protestors have already been charged with unlawful entry—“knowingly entering or remaining in a...
Congressional Hysteria & Hypocrisy Could Doom Liberty
by James Bovard | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
The political hysteria unleashed by last week’s clash at the Capitol between police and Trump protestors poses a growing danger to Americans’ constitutional rights. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer ludicrously compared the ruckus to Pearl Harbor – a “day of...
The Charge of Treason and the Danger to Democracy
by James Bovard | Jan 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
Historian Henry Adams observed a century ago that politics “has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” Nowadays, politics seems hellbent on multiplying hatred. And few things spur hatred more effectively than tarring all political opponents as traitors....
The Year in which Comforting American Myths Were Ravaged
by James Bovard | Dec 30, 2020 | Featured Articles
Thanks in large part to Covid lockdowns, this year has left vast wreckage in its wake, with ten million jobs lost, more than 100,000 businesses and dozens of national chains bankrupted or closed. Up to 40 million people could face eviction in the coming months for...
11th-hour COVID-19 relief deal proves again that Congress is unfit to govern
by James Bovard | Dec 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap,” Napoleon reputedly said more than two centuries ago. Boundless ignorance is also not a handicap, as Congress demonstrated Monday night by approving a 5,593-page bill with no time to read it. The usual suspects are indignant...
Covid Regulations in Loco Moco
by James Bovard | Dec 5, 2020 | Featured Articles
In August, I reported here on how Montgomery County, Maryland, was seeking to shut down private schools as part of their Covid-19 strategy of abolishing all risk by abolishing all freedom. As more individuals have recently tested positive for Covid, the county...
‘Extremism’ as a Ticket to Tyrannize
by James Bovard | Dec 3, 2020 | Featured Articles
“Extremists” are one of the famous bogeymen that American politicians invoke to sanctify their own power. But the definition of “extremism” has forever been in flux. The only consistent element in definitions of extremism is that politicians always win. In the 1770s,...
Elections and Legitimacy
by James Bovard | Nov 12, 2020 | Featured Articles
This year’s presidential election is the fourth since 2000 to be marred by either widespread allegations of voter fraud or of foreign interference. Politicians and pundits have long counted on elections to wave a magic wand of legitimacy over the reign of whoever is...
A Collection of Bovardian Epigrams
by James Bovard | Oct 30, 2020 | Featured Articles
Election Day can be the longest day of the year. Especially if the presidential race remains undecided late into the evening, neither Xanax nor vodka may be enough to kill the pain. In lieu of other sedatives, following are some cheerful lines which might blunt the...
Defining Despotism Down
by James Bovard | Oct 28, 2020 | Featured Articles
The simultaneous defining down of both democracy and despotism is 2020’s darkest legacy. Voters are recognizing that their ballots merely choose elective dictators who can exempt themselves from the Constitution simply by pronouncing the word “emergency.” At the same...
Will Democracy’s Myths Doom Liberty?
by James Bovard | Oct 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
The Supreme Court declared in 1943, “There is no mysticism in the American concept of the State or of the nature or origin of its authority." In reality, the cardinal doctrines of contemporary democracy are layer upon layer of mystical claptrap. The phrases which...
'Choose Your Liar' Democracy
by James Bovard | Oct 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
The final weeks of a presidential campaign is one of the best opportunities to view political perfidy in spectacular colors. While the media lectures Americans about their civic duty to vote to save the nation, the candidates continue conniving nonstop with no respect...
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