State of the Union

Thumping Biden’s Speech and Other Outrages with Gard Goldsmith on the David Knight Show

My old friend Gardner Goldsmith and I had fun smacking Biden’s SOTU speech and some of his other outrages as he guest-hosted the David Knight Show. Here is Gardner’s summary of the show: “Join guest-host Gardner Goldsmith as he welcomes reporter, author, and freedom-supporter, James Bovard, to discuss the Biden ‘State of the Union’ address […]

Busting Biden’s Blarney SOTU on Philly Radio

Dom Giordano and I had fun smacking Biden’s State of the Union speech today on WPHT Philly radio. Here’s the WPHT summary of the show: Dom welcomes author James Bovard back onto the Dom Giordano Program after he penned a piece for the New York Post exposing ‘shrinkflation’ as nothing more than a political buzzword. […]
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Demonic Optimism: Biden’s State of the Union Address

I was especially struck by some words following the habitual long litany of presidential achievements, which was for much different reasons also selected by Democratic Party fund raising machine that is never idle. Here is their version of the passage, conveyed the next morning as a private message from the President himself to me: “I’ve […]

Decorum Propels D.C. Deceit

Mises Institute, February 13, 2023 Decorum Propels D.C. Deceit by James Bovard During Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Joe Biden uncorked a series of howlers that eventually spurred heckling from Republican members of Congress. Pundits raced to condemn the backlash to Biden “You saw real white trash on display,” declared James Carville on […]
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Distract, Divide and Conquer: The REAL State of Our Union

John whitehead Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of problems that individually and collectively threaten our lives, liberties, prosperity and happiness. These are not problems the politicians want to talk about, let alone address, yet we cannot …

No Shoes Thrown at Biden in SOTU Brian Wilson Podcast

Former WABC superstar Brian Wilson and I did our weekly podcast roundup of the latest political calamities.  We had fun smacking around Biden’s State of the Union telethon.  We respected the decorum of this venerable tradition: nobody threw a shoe at the president during the podcast. (I hit some of the same themes in my […]
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“Go Get Him!??” Carping on Biden’s State of the Union Address

Biden’s speech ended with a bizarre shout: “Go get him!” Everyone mystified so far by that closing. Hearty thanks to the Ron Paul Institute for their kind words on this post: Jim Bovard is an authentic American hero. There is truly no one like him in journalism today. Read everything he writes. Listen to everything […]
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SOTU and impeachment wins put Trump on the offensive [Video]

Dr Steven Turley posted an amazingly thorough summary of the effects felt in the Democrat Party by President Trump’s acquittal from the impeachment charges and the surprising temper tantrum by a hapless and enraged Nancy Pelosi, who (after preparation) tore up the pages of the President’s State of the Union address the night before his acquittal. These events are both the culmination of the Democrat Party’s latest attempt at doing something to derail or even remove the President, and they outline the extent of Democrat hysteria and insanity.

SOTU: Democratic “Resistance” Give Trump’s Venezuela Aggression a Standing Ovation

Donald Trump was in defiant mood at last night’s State of the Union Address in Washington, D.C., confident that he will be acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial today. While there is a great amount of talk that the United States is racked with partisan strife, when it comes to foreign policy, the parties are in near lockstep agreement. A case in point was the cheers from the audience as Trump announced that “we are once again standing up for freedom in our hemisphere” by “supporting the hopes of Cubans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.”