#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...
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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...
After 30 Years, Did the Disabilities Act Work?
by James Bovard | Jul 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
Thirty years ago, President George H.W. Bush signed [7/26/1990] the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was supposed to create a new era of equality and justice. Instead, the ADA often turns disabilities into assets, encouraging far more people to claim to be...
The REAL ID Act Ravages Our Liberty
by James Bovard | Jul 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
National ID cards have been atop the command-and-control political wish list for decades. In the 1990s, Republican Congresses shot down efforts to move toward national identification cards. However, after 9/11, “everything changed” and politicians seized the chance to...
Sham Bailout Statistics Shroud Shutdown Tyranny
by James Bovard | Jul 17, 2020 | Featured Articles
Last month, I wrote a piece here condemning the Trump administration for refusing to disclose the beneficiaries of bailouts authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The following day, the Trump administration reversed course...
Independence Day in the Midst of Dictatorship
by James Bovard | Jul 3, 2020 | Featured Articles
How many Americans will greet July 4th Day with gratitude that their governor is no longer compelling them to “shelter in place” or “stay at home” so they can celebrate their freedom? Most of the media is ignoring the fact that this Independence Day is occurring under...
Impeachment Reminder of Our Toxic Foreign Aid
by James Bovard | Jun 29, 2020 | Featured Articles
Foreign aid to Ukraine helped spur the Democrats’ effort to impeach and remove President Trump earlier this year. Ukraine was supposed to be on the verge of great progress until Trump pulled the rug out from under the heroic salvation effort by US government...
The Media Has Conveniently Fogotten George W. Bush's Many Atrocities
by James Bovard | Jun 4, 2020 | Featured Articles
Former president George W. Bush has returned to the spotlight to give moral guidance to America in these troubled times. In a statement released on Tuesday, Bush announced that he was “anguished” by the “brutal suffocation” of George Floyd and declared that “lasting...
Politicians' COVID Mania Ravages Maryland
by James Bovard | May 29, 2020 | Featured Articles
Maryland politicians have destroyed more than four hundred thousand jobs in dictatorial responses purporting to thwart the coronavirus pandemic. “Nearly one in five Maryland workers have filed for unemployment” compensation, theBaltimore Sun reported. The situation is...
Will the Political Class Be Held Liable For What They’ve Done?
by James Bovard | May 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
Politically-dictated lockdowns and prohibitions have recently destroyed tens of millions of American jobs. Politicians have effectively claimed a right to inflict unlimited economic damage in pursuit of zero COVID-19 contagion. The perverse incentives driving the...
Hacksawing the Economy: How Lockdowns Are in the Tradition of Civil War Surgeons
by James Bovard | May 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
Politicians and government health officials’ justification for decreeing shutdowns of vast swaths of American life has been deterring the spread of COVID-19. According to Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, almost 40 percent of households earning less than $40,000...
The Deep State’s Demolition of Democracy
by James Bovard | Mar 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
“Thank God for the Deep State,” declared former acting CIA chief John McLaughlin while appearing on a panel at the National Press Club last October. In 2018, the New York Times asserted that Trump’s use of the term “Deep State” and similar rhetoric “fanned fears that...
US Foreign Policy Perpetual Perfidy
by James Bovard | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
The Washington establishment was aghast in October when Donald Trump appeared to approve a Turkish invasion of northern Syria. The United States was seen as abandoning the Kurds, some of whom had assisted the United States in the fight against ISIS and other terrorist...
Claims that John Bolton's book disclosures are 'top secret' ring hollow
by James Bovard | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured Articles
Ever since the 9/11 attacks, Republicans and Democrats have conspired to keep Americans increasingly ignorant of what the federal government does. The number of secret federal documents skyrocketed, and any information classified was treated like a political holy...
Impeachment’s Biggest Absurdity: Our Toxic Fixation On Useless And Corrupting Ukraine Aid
by James Bovard | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured Articles
The campaign to convict and remove President Donald Trump in the Senate hinges on delays in disbursing US aid to Ukraine. Ukraine was supposedly on the verge of great progress until Trump pulled the rug out from under the heroic salvation effort by US government...
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