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New York Post, April 20, 2023 Anti-work, pro-welfare Democrats are in a food-stamp fury over attempts to cut costs By James Bovard “Cutting SNAP will lead to homelessness, incarceration and death for 38 million Americans,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-Bronx/Yonkers) howled Monday. Bowman is enraged by a House Republican proposal to encourage some food-stamp recipients to […]

Of course, King was murdered by the Deep State on Steroids: Both the Jowers and the Wilson allegations suggest that persons other than or in addition to James Earl Ray participated in the assassination. Ray, within days of entering his guilty plea in 1969, attempted to withdraw it. Until his death in April 1998, he […]
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What follows is an encore for a column I wrote in 2018 for the new progressive Democrats elected to the House of Representatives. The Democratic Party won control of the House in 2018, and again barely in 2020. There was no response nor adoption of any of these power-enhancing suggestions from any of the novice […]
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New York Post, December 13, 2022 Twitter Files reveal how federal censors made mail-in ballots sacred — boosting Biden By James Bovard Elon Musk’s Twitter Truth Squad is exposing the FBI’s role in suppressing free speech before the 2020 election. But the FBI was practically a bit player in a far greater federal conspiracy to […]

The expedited legislation passed by Congress to avert a strike by railroad unions dealt one more blow in the decades long war waged by the two ruling parties against the working class.
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The recent decision by the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing last May of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is not a game-changer but important and worthy of reflection, nonetheless. Based on the long trajectory of US military and political support of Israel, and Washington’s constant shielding of Tel […]

Obama said, "...I come from Chicago so I want to be honest. It’s not as if it’s just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past, sometimes Democrats have too. Whenever people are in power, they have this tendency to try to, you know, tilt things in their direction.”

The Nevada and Arizona races were called in favor of Democrat incumbents days after Election Day due to counting mail-in ballots. Democrats will now hold a 50-49 majority in the Senate. Vice President Kamala Harris holds the tie-breaking vote.

Well, the reviews are pretty much in on President Joe “Malarkey’s” crazy stunning speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on September 1, and they  are quite breathless with descriptors like:  “Authoritarian, fascist, creepy, Satanic, dystopian, occult, Orwellian, and ‘What the Fuck?'”  One wonders:  was the band playing “Hail to the Chief” or “Hail Satan,” instead? […]
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Arizona still has over 630,000 ballots that have yet to be counted to determine the state's new governor and the Senate race. In Maricopa County, 70 out of 223 polling stations had major problems with voting machines that affected mostly Republicans who wanted to cast their ballots in person.