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...
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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...
Bill Clinton’s Body-Snatchers: The Truth About the ‘Humanitarian’ War on Yugoslavia
by James Bovard | Aug 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
Former president Bill Clinton continues to be feted around the world as a progressive champion of human rights. But a European Union task force last week confirmed that the ruthless cabal he empowered by bombing Serbia in 1999 has committed atrocities including...
9/11 Commission: 10th Anniversary of a Bootlicking National Disgrace
by James Bovard | Jul 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ten years ago, the 9/11 Commission released its report on the challenges to the nation. Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, the chairman and vice chairman of the commission, have a platitude-laden piece this morning in USA Today: “The 'generational challenge' against terrorism...
US Foreign Food Aid Hurts the Poor
by James Bovard | Jul 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
The U.S. government loves to preen about its generosity to the world’s downtrodden. However, a long series of presidents and their tools have scorned the evidence that their aid programs perennially clobber recipients. Nowhere is this clearer than in the sordid...
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