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5 days ago | 
alethonews.com | Jim Bovard |Jeremy Loffredo |Whitney Webb
COVID Doubts Made You a ‘Violent Extremist’ By Jim Bovard | The Libertarian Institute | June 2, 2025Biden administration policymakers hated you more than you knew. Four years ago, I warned at the Libertarian Institute:“Libertarians are in the federal crosshairs… Many libertarians assume they have nothing to fear because they are not engaged in seeking to violently overthrow the government.
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5 days ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Jim Bovard |James Bovard
Biden administration policymakers hated you more than you knew. Four years ago, I warned at the Libertarian Institute:“Libertarians are in the federal crosshairs…Many libertarians assume they have nothing to fear because they are not engaged in seeking to violently overthrow the government.
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2 weeks ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Jim Bovard |James Bovard
This is reprinted from Jim Bovard’s blog and expands on a post originally from 2023. Today is the 163th anniversary of the battle of Front Royal, Virginia (the town near where I was raised). On May 23, 1862, almost all the Yankee soldiers in Front Royal were captured, killed or wounded during a surprise attack by Jackson’s “foot calvary.” Both sides fought valiantly, but the northerners were greatly outnumbered. Their commander, Col.
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3 weeks ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Jim Bovard |James Bovard
In 1977, East Germany ransomed hundreds of its leading intellectuals and artists to West Germany, partly because it did not wish to endure public criticism by its own citizens during an International Rights Conference. In spite of the human sale, there was no general revulsion against the East German government in the international community.
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4 weeks ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Jim Bovard |James Bovard
Federal judge orders Trump administration to release Tufts University grad student Rumeysa Ozturk from ICE lockup. Ozturk, who had a valid student visa from Turkey, was only guilty of writing an op-ed.
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1 month ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Jim Bovard |James Bovard
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained on Wednesday that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are suffering from “mission creep.” But Bessent announced that the Trump administration will be “doubling down” on supporting the largest foreign aid gushers on earth. “Far from stepping back, ‘America First’ seeks to expand U.S. leadership in international institutions like the I.M.F. and World Bank,” Bessent declared.
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1 month ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Jim Bovard |James Bovard
On Tax Day, politicians and mainstream media will hector Americans to be grateful for the opportunity to pay their taxes. The Internal Revenue Service website touts a moth-eaten quote from a dead Supreme Court Justice: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” But recent history is the best antidote to groveling in gratitude to the federal agency that commandeers a lion’s share of your income.
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2 months ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Jim Bovard |James Bovard
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. forced Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, to resign on Friday. Good Washingtonians were horrified, especially since Marks had played a key role in enabling federal dictates during the COVID pandemic. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) responded to Marks’ exit enthusiastically:Last year I held a hearing exposing COVID vaccine malfeasance led by Peter Marks at the FDA.
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2 months ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Jim Bovard |James Bovard
One of President Donald Trump’s most popular reforms is his executive order abolishing federal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) dictates and their efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.” Trump’s order outraged progressives and sparked a torrent of legal challenges. Can Trump end a half century of federal tyrannizing of private employment policies? DEI’s absurdities are the end game of perpetual power grabs and and bureaucratic conniving.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Jim Bovard |James Bovard
In his State of the Union address last week, President Donald Trump promised that Americans “will always be free.” That throwaway line assured another round of applause from his Republican devotees on Capitol Hill. But will other Americans be as gullible or servile as members of Congress? Americans are indoctrinated in government schools to presume that our national DNA practically guarantees we will always be free.
