Another day passes, and another Daily Sceptic article is assailed by ‘fact checkers’. When will these zealous defenders of received opinion stop claiming our sceptical interpretations of the facts are factual errors?
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washingtontimes.com July 7, 2022 Records reveal Obama administration’s secret campaign to silence opinion writer By Ryan Lovelace Newly revealed Justice Department records show the Obama administration’s hidden censorship tactics to silence writer Jim Bovard’s criticism of then-Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. A top Justice Department official sought to intimidate USA Today into no longer […]
Published by Libertarian Institute, and republished by Counterpunch In 2015, Justice Department press chief Brian Fallon bitterly complained to USA Today editors about my articles walloping Attorney General Eric Holder, including”Eric Holder’s Lawless Legacy,” [Feb. 3, 2015] and “Eric Holder’s Police Shooting Record? Dismal,” [Aug. 20, 2014]. Fallon (who later became presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s […]
I will be on C-SPAN Washington Journal tomorrow morning from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. I will be discussing my USA Today articles on Covid policies with host Greta Brawner. Here is the C-SPAN link on the program. I will post a link to the program after it is concluded and reposted on the web by […]
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Kit Knightly The past few days, even weeks, have seen a definite alteration in the media’s attitude to the Covid “pandemic”. There have been numerous examples of what, if the media were not so tightly controlled, might be referred to as “dissent”. But, since the media is tightly controlled, we must call it an apparent …
Today is the 10th anniversary of the drone killing of Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, a 16 year old born in Colorado and killed in Yemen. He perished as part of Obama’s crackdown on terrorist suspects around the world. His father, who was also an American citizen, was killed two weeks earlier by another drone strike ordered by […]
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Let's be clear, the US as an Imperial power simply cannot afford to give up Afghanistan. And they won't. They'll just recalibrate their word use and carry on. They'll use the "drawdown" to earn some good-boy points with the anti-war crowd, whilst funnelling Pentagon funds into paying mercenaries and training proxies.
Congress Is Still Unfit to Govern by James Bovard “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap,” Napoleon is reputed to have said more than two centuries ago. Boundless ignorance is also not a handicap, as Congress demonstrated last December by approving a 5593-page bill without reading it. Plenty of activists and editorial pages howled over […]
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Washington was the Capital of Deceit long before Trump or Biden became president. Here’s my 2015 translation of DC BS into the vernacular. USA TODAY April 13, 2015 Tax-time devil’s dictionary of DC lingo by James Bovard Having trouble with the ‘Washingtonese’ around April 15? Look no further for a translation. April 15 is the […]
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As one might tell from my subtitle, I have an opinion about this. One might even say, a “judgement.” Representative Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat representing part of Brooklyn, New York, showed the anti-Christian alignment of the Biden Congress in no uncertain terms with his remarks, saying in essence that God’s will has no place in […]
