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1 week 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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2 weeks 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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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
alethonews.com | John Leake |Jim Bovard
“Seek them out and destroy them where they live” Remembering Merck’s Australian doctor hit listBy John Leake | Courageous Discourse | February 3, 2025This evening I pondered the news of Caroline Kennedy’s hit letter against her cousin, RFK, Jr., and the fact that she was the Biden Administration’s Ambassador to Australia, and the fact that she has served as a powerful ambassador for Merck’s Gardasil vaccine.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
alethonews.com | Jonathan Turley |Jim Bovard
‘This is NPR’: America’s Public Media Faces Reckoning on What it is By Jonathan Turley | February 2, 2025“This is NPR.” That tagline has long been used for National Public Radio, but what it is remains remarkably in doubt. NPR remains something of a curiosity. It is a state-subsidized media outlet in a country that rejects state media. It is a site that routinely pitches for its sponsors while insisting that it does not have commercials.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
alethonews.com | Jim Bovard |Michael Nevradakis
Forty Years Bashing the National Endowment for Democracy By Jim Bovard | The Libertarian Institute | February 4, 2025 In a November 29, 1985 piece in the Oakland Tribune, I hailed NED as “one of the newest, most prestigious boondoggles on the Potomac.” But there were plenty of scoffers early on: “NED has been called many things—an International Political Action Committee, the Taxpayer Funding of Foreign Elections Program, and a slush fund for political hacks who like to travel to warm...
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Jim Bovard |James Bovard
On Sunday, Elon Musk posted on X:Those who know, please reply to this post listing all the evil things that NED has done. It’s a long list. https://t.co/8smJsP5Hji— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025After that merciless arm-twisting, I have no choice but to recap my National Endowment for Democracy bashes going back to shortly after it was launched in 1983.
