James Bovard

June 25th was the 150th anniversary of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. Col. George S. Custer and 267 US soldiers were massacred by thousands of outraged Indian warriors on the plains of eastern Montana.

George W. Bush in the Oval Office with is Attorney General John Ashcroft, who said of the war on drugs: “I want to renew it.

When former FBI director Robert Mueller died in March, the New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a

When former FBI director Robert Mueller died in March, the New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.” Media tributes poured in as if Mueller was the law-enforcement version of Mother Theresa. Mueller’s abuse of power goes way back But tell that to the Liberty City Seven, victims in a […]

On June 30 1995, I helped shatter the coverup of federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. For millions of Americans, those brazen killings epitomized how

One of America’s most talented antiwar artists and political satirists passed away last week. Tom Blanton did one of the best daily roundups of government

One of America's most talented antiwar artists and political satirists passed away last week.

After Al Qaeda terrorists used Afghanistan for training bases for the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. military invaded Afghanistan and quickly routed the Taliban government. President George W. Bush boasted that U.S. troops brought freedom and democracy to Afghanistan. But rather than democracy, the United States brought Hamid Karzai, an oil pipeline lobbyist who was expected to slavishly follow U.S. orders.

The biggest Potemkin Village pretense was the notion that Biden was actually in charge of the federal government and national policy. If the Wizard of Oz was a Biden era political story, the media would overwhelmingly side with the guy behind the curtain. As long as the string-pullers in the Biden White House perpetuated progressive policies to continue bloating Leviathan’s power, Biden’s reign was “close enough for government work” to the “will of the people.” Donald Trump is not as physically feeble as Joe Biden, though he is a shadow of his vitality in his first term. But Trump’s delusions on the Iran War seem as bad or worse than any imaginary vision that sent Biden wandering off stage at the wrong time.

In this age of social media and A.I. illusions, an old Russian scam provides the best lens to understand America's two most recent presidents.