Commentary The FBI has raided Donald Trump’s home in Florida and opened a private safe, hanging around for hours looking for classified material that might be there. They were likely looking for items that Trump believed he had declassified—the president can do this with anything—but is still holding in his possession. Top officials of the…
Over 45,000 Federal Employees Bumped to Six-Figure Salary During Pandemic
Over 45,000 more federal bureaucrats received a six-figure salary than before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) says. A total of 114,433 federal government employees received a salary of more than $100,000 in 2021. The number of federal government employees receiving more than $100,000 increased by 45,426 during the pandemic, according to access…
US Government: The Corrupt Bank That Cannot Fail
August 4, 2022
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Commentary Most of us barely paid attention last week when Congress, entirely under the control of one party, passed two huge pieces of legislation with a price tag of $730 billion. We get the headlines—transition to green energy and support chip manufacturing—but not the details simply because they are too voluminous. Members of Congress do…
Dictatorship Chic
Commentary In the trajectory laid out by F.A. Hayek in his 1944 book, “The Road to Serfdom,” dictatorship is the end game of a period of immense government failure. The ruling class begins by tinkering with the normal function of markets and society with some high goal in mind (think: virus eradication) and the results are…
The Culpability of the New York Times: Then and Now
July 26, 2022
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Commentary On Feb. 27, 2020, weeks before full disease panic hit the United States, the New York Times podcast started preparing the way with an interview with its lead virus reporter Donald G. McNeil. He promoted panic and lockdowns (“This is alarmist, but I think right now, it’s justified”), and reinforced the point in the next day’s print edition…
Mozart, Mediocrity, and the Administrative State
Commentary The 1984 movie “Amadeus” is a great achievement in its genre because it actually puts the creative process of the genius of W.A. Mozart at the center. This is extremely rare. Most films about great creators dwell almost exclusively on the personal failings of great artistic minds (Ludwig van Beethoven, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Freddie…
Bureaucratism: First Cousin of Socialism
Commentary Economists across the ideological spectrum largely, if not entirely, agree that the United States has a “mixed economy.” In other words, our economy operates somewhere between the polar extremes of the classical liberal free-market capitalism that prevailed during the early decades of our republic and socialism, under which the government directs economic production. One…
The Senior Executive Service: Heart of the Medical Deep State
July 11, 2022
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Analysis To understand and prioritize the stack of possible responses to the advanced state of corruption within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), think of a pyramid-shaped hierarchy of problems and issues. The origin of these issues and the overall administrative state can be traced to the Pendleton Act of 1883, which was…
Anatomy of the Administrative State: The HHS
July 10, 2022
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Analysis Many have come to believe that if Dr. Anthony Fauci either resigns or is removed from his position as director of the the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), then the whole COVID crisis problem of chronic, strategic, and tactical administrative overreach, dishonesty, mismanagement, and ethical breaches within the U.S. Department of…
Another Lockdowner Bites the Dust
July 7, 2022
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News analysis Governments of the world today are among the least popular institutions on the planet. There are a few possible exceptions such as Sweden, Florida, and South Dakota, places with leadership that chose not to bludgeon its people in the name of virus control. Among all the rest, we see instability and public opposition…
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