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...
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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...
Two Types of Terror in Michigan
by James Bovard | Oct 10, 2020 | Featured Articles
#StopTrumpsTerror is one of the hottest trending topics on Twitter, with more than 90,000 tweets. Yesterday, the FBI announced the arrest of six people yesterday in a plot (perhaps government-hatched) to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and put her on trial...
Will the Pandemic Panic Card Win in 2020?
by James Bovard | Oct 2, 2020 | Featured Articles
“People want to be safe,” Joe Biden repeatedly declared in Tuesday night’s debate. The 2020 presidential race could turn into a referendum on whether vastly increasing government power can provide “freedom from fear.” This has been a recurring theme in recent American...
Pandemic Follies: Tyranny Won’t Keep Us Safe
by James Bovard | Oct 1, 2020 | Featured Articles
Politicians have destroyed more than 13 million jobs this year in a deluge of edicts aimed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 200,000 Americans still died from the coronavirus, but the anti-COVID government crackdowns probably did far more damage than the...
The War on Terror Presaged Covid Mania
by James Bovard | Sep 10, 2020 | Featured Articles
This week is the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. America never recovered politically from those attacks, and government responses to the Covid pandemic are repeating many of the same follies of the War on Terror....
Why I Write
by James Bovard | Aug 11, 2020 | Featured Articles
I was born in Iowa, raised in the mountains of Virginia, and attended Virginia Tech sporadically from 1974 to 1976 before dropping out to try my luck writing. At some point in the late 1970s, individual liberty became my highest political value and I resolved to do...
Deceit and Demagoguery in Montgomery County, Maryland
by James Bovard | Aug 8, 2020 | Featured Articles
Travis Gayles, Montgomery County (MD) County Health OfficerAcross the nation, politicians and bureaucrats have invoked the COVID pandemic to seize dictatorial power to ban activities they disapprove. One of the most brazen examples recently occurred in super-lefty...
Political Legitimacy Dies in 2020
by James Bovard | Jul 29, 2020 | Featured Articles
The American political system may be on the eve of its worst legitimacy crisis since the Civil War. Early warning signals indicate that many states could suffer catastrophic failures in counting votes in November. The election will occur amidst the vast economic...
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