Last year on the campaign trail, crowds roared when Donald Trump denounced his opponent as "trigger-happy" Hillary. But President Trump is rapidly incarnating the vice he condemned. Nowhere is this more evident than in Syria, where Trump’s recklessness risks dragging...
James Bovard
Comey Fring Justly Knocks FBI off its Pedestal
by James Bovard | May 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s firing of FBI chief James Comey provides a welcome chance to dethrone the FBI from its pinnacle in American politics and life. Last September, Comey denounced Twitter "demagoguery" for the widespread belief that the FBI was not "honest" or...
Woodrow Wilson Made Democracy Unsafe for the World
by James Bovard | Apr 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
This week is the 100th anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson’s speech to Congress seeking a declaration of war against Germany. Many people celebrate this centenary of America’s emergence as a world power. But, when the Trump administration is bombing or rattling...
Trump Budget Cuts Bankroll New Waste
by James Bovard | Mar 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s proposed budget takes a big step towards draining the swamp in Washington. This is the first time since the Reagan era that a president has sought a wholesale demolition of boondoggles. On the other hand, Trump’s defense and homeland security...
Trump’s Fearmongering is White House Tradition
by James Bovard | Feb 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump is being reviled for wildly exaggerating the peril of Muslim refugees. Some commentators fret that his rhetoric signals a new fascist era descending on America. A Washington Post news analysis on Saturday derided Trump’s fear-mongering: “Playing upon...
A Billion Dollars of Federally Funded Paranoia
by James Bovard | Feb 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
When it comes to mindless excess in the war on terror, it is difficult to compete with the 70+ fusion centers bankrolled by the Department of Homeland Security. They began to be set up around the nation shortly after 9/11 as federal-state-local partnerships to better...
Trump Must Expose Obama-era Power Grabs
by James Bovard | Jan 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
President-elect Donald Trump will face pervasive doubts about his legitimacy from the day he takes office. His opponents will likely portray him as governing in unprecedented and reckless ways. The best response to such charges is to open the books and expose how the...
The Fraudulent Obama War on Corruption
by James Bovard | Dec 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Obama administration wants Americans to believe that it is fiercely anti-corruption. “I have been shocked by the degree to which I find corruption pandemic in the world today,” declared Secretary of State John Kerry at an Anti-Corruption Summit in London last May....
Twenty Years of a Dictatorial Democracy
by James Bovard | Nov 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
The 2016 election campaign is mortifying millions of Americans in part because the presidency has become far more dangerous in recent times. Since Sept. 11, 2001, we have lived in a perpetual emergency, which supposedly justifies routinely ignoring the law and...
The Census Bureau’s Latest Peril to Freedom
by James Bovard | Jun 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Census Bureau is sending its hefty American Community Survey to more than three million households a year. I recently received this 28-page tsunami of questions about everything from my plumbing to my profession to my ethnicity and income. But as a former Census...
Obama’s Global Anti-Corruption Cops Should Call Internal Affairs
by James Bovard | May 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Obama administration wants Americans to believe that it is fiercely anti-corruption. “I've been shocked by the degree to which I find corruption pandemic in the world today," declared Secretary of State John Kerry at last week’s Anti-Corruption Summit in London....
TSA #iHateTheWait Video from Washington Post
by James Bovard | May 18, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Frustrated travelers caught in endless TSA lines are lashing the TSA with an #iHateToWait Twitter tag. The Washington Post created this excellent video on the backlash. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says his agency is “asking the public to have appropriate...
The Cover-Up of the Damning 9/11 Report Continues
by James Bovard | Apr 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
Do Americans have the right to learn whether a foreign government helped finance the 9/11 attacks? A growing number of congressmen and senators are demanding that a 28-page portion of a 2002 congressional report finally be declassified. The Obama administration...
My Too-Intimate Relations With The TSA
by James Bovard | Mar 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
Airport security or Gitmo? Transportation security requires competence not sexual assault. The Transportation Security Administration finally obeyed a 2011 federal court order March 3 and issued a 157 page Federal Register notice justifying its controversial full-body...
Obama Speech Ignored His Death Toll at Home and Abroad
by James Bovard | Jan 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
The White House kept one seat vacant in the gallery during Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday “for the victims of gun violence who no longer have a voice.” This was part of Obama’s campaign for new federal restrictions on firearms ownership. But shouldn’t...
TSA Bombs the Holidays
by James Bovard | Dec 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
If you use hand sanitizer when traveling, the Transportation Security Administration can badger you as if you were a terrorist suspect. TSA is one of the biggest hassles many Americans will encounter this holiday season. I learned that firsthand while flying home from...
The Washington Intellectual Gravy Train
by James Bovard | Jun 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
Intellectuals have long been glorified as champions of truth and defenders of society’s highest values. But in Washington, they serve as Leviathan‘s Praetorian Guard. Intellectuals are thriving in DC thanks in large part to the ruinous policy advice they proffer. The...
TSA Has No Excuse to Continue the Groping
by James Bovard | Jun 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last August, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole attacked an article I wrote, stating that it was "Misleading, inaccurate and unfairly disparages the dedicated (TSA) workforce. … We will not sit back and allow misinformation and conjecture to...
Surrendering Liberty: America’s Fatal Freedom Apathy
by James Bovard | Jan 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
According to our civic folklore, Americans are more devoted to freedom than any other nationality on earth. But it is increasingly appears that this dogma is a relic of bygone times. A Gallup poll last July asked a thousand Americans: “Are you satisfied or...
Obama’s Phony Foreign-Aid Reform
by James Bovard | Oct 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
Four years ago, President Obama promised in a United Nations speech to “change the way we do business” with foreign aid and “seek partners who want to build their own capacity to provide for their people.” A year earlier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton complained...
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