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New York Post, December 2, 2022 Congress is shocked, shocked by the COVID fraud it created By James Bovard Like Captain Renault in the gambling casino in “Casablanca,” congressmen are “shocked, shocked” by all the fraud spawned by the trillions of dollars in COVID handouts they approved. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis […]

Shaun Thompson and I had a rollicking chat today on Chicago’s The Answer AM 560, thrashing politicians across the board.  No prisoners were taken. Shaun mentioned that politicians don’t bother reading the thick legislative bills they enact.  I quoted Milton Berle’s great line – “You can send a man to Congress but you can’t make […]

New York Post, October 3, 2022 How $600 billion was stolen from the American people By James Bovard “COVID fraud” is at this point a redundant phrase. Congress appropriated more than $5 trillion for COVID relief but almost $600 billion may have been lost to fraud — an astounding 12%. Washington’s pandemic pratfalls are the […]

American Institute for Economic Research, July 16, 2020

Sham Bailout Statistics Shroud Shutdown Tyranny

by James Bovard

– July 16, 2020

Senate candidate John Wayne wants Alaska to secede-- or at least to not pay any taxesYesterday, writing for the Washington Post, Seung Min Kim reported that "Republican senators up for reelection this fall i

How many times a day, and in how many different presentations, has President Donald Trump suddenly departed from script to exclaim, “This was the greatest economy we ever had, the greatest in the world, the greatest ever, and it all went down because of a pandemic?” A large part of the United States electorate has accepted this political statement, which Trump uses to boost his election chance. Time to burst the bubble he has created around himself and let him know his ego- building statement is entirely false.

From Ochelli.com The TYR’s Day broadcast of The Ochelli Effect we are lucky to have Michael Swanson from Wall Street Window Dot Com kick off the informative conversation. The rotation of the second-hour guests makes the second day of the broadcast week the most popular two hours we have according to listener feedback and consistent […]

Republicans in states or districts that are so red that they don't need independent voters to win, have no problem continuing to support Trump. At least in theory, the states where Republicans can win without significant independent support are these half dozen red hellholes (with their PVIs):

Duluth, Minnesota is a blue city surrounded by 4 blue counties-- Saint Louis, of which it is the county seat, Carlton to the south, and Lake and Cook to the north and east. All 4 counties went for Hillary in 2016, Saint Louis 51.9% to 40.1%. (The 4 counties were Bernie country in primaries.

In the first hour I go solo and talk about the recent elections in Pakistan and Imran Khan’s rise to power. I talk about Khan’s political party and how they they were able to take 116 seats in Parliament and elevate Khan to Prime Minister. I discuss Khan’s colorful life as well. I also discuss my major takeaways from the election: why the military backed Khan, how Khan will interact with the Taliban going forward, and the complex relationship with China and their China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. I also address the question over whether Khan is Pakistan’s Donald Trump.