Commentary As the crisis in our political-governmental system intensifies, I thought I’d put a few things in historic context. In response to the outrageous invasion of Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, several people have suggested the deep state in general—and the FBI in particular—have “crossed the Rubicon.” On Monday, Buck Sexton told Jesse Waters: “It almost…
The Hidden Enemy Now Stares Us in the Face
August 12, 2022
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Commentary The most bizarre feature of the raid on Donald Trump’s home was its incredible invasiveness. It was how several days went by before anyone was willing to take responsibility for it. All inquiries to the White House were met with hand waves and shoulder shrugs. The FBI would not comment. All we had were…
Taiwan Defense Needs ‘Proper Leadership’ From US: John Mills; His New Book on the Deep State
August 10, 2022
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I spoke with former Army Colonel John Mills, who is publishing a new book on his experience being caught right in the midst of Russiagate and Spygate. He is the former director of cybersecurity policy, strategy, and international affairs at the Department of Defense, and he is also a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy….
Freedom Itself Is Gravely in Peril
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…
Is This Still a Constitutional Republic?
August 9, 2022
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Commentary The raid on Donald Trump’s home, reportedly to pillage some documents that the former president believes he declassified, certainly raises some serious questions about the role of government power and what kind of regime it is under which we live. Several reports suggest that the White House and President Joe Biden’s personal staff found…
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…
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…
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