Who decides?
For the 2026 midterm election, forget about party labels. Forget about the likeability or lack thereof of this or that candidate. Instead, ask yourself this one question.
Tagged: Government
The first thing we do let’s get rid of the experts.
The actual experts that built post-war America have retired, died off and left the scene leaving us not with up & coming protégés but instead an elite “expertocracy”
Lessons learned from the pandemic.
What we have learned – or at least what we should learn – from the pandemic is that people in high positions in government are quick to assume power and slow to relinquish it.
Democrats, Democrats everywhere but not a drop to drink.
Two questions. First: when is the last time you had even the slightest concern about drinking the water from your kitchen tap? Second: can you name a city in America under Republican leadership that is broke and dysfunctional?
What this conservative believes.
I believe in the sovereignty of the individual. Therefore I believe in personal responsibility. I believe in the duty of self help and in the freedom that flows from self-reliance.
Power: dispersed or concentrated? (Big difference.)
Get a letter from GEICO and you most likely throw it away. But get a letter from the IRS and the room spins.
I distrust the government. You should, too.
As government grows it becomes at once less competent and more malfeasant – a belief that has been again recently confirmed.
Paying on both ends.
With the best of intentions, the government has become the driving economic force in both higher education and in health care. In both cases, costs are out of control.
Texas creates jobs. Liberals condescend.
For ruling-class elites, there is nothing to recommend Texas. It is a miserable, Red State, George W. Bush-spawning hell-on-earth. So how, then, do they explain job numbers just released by the federal government?
The public/private disconnect.
I got an email from the superintendent of the school district where my younger daughter goes to school talking about the impact of state budget funding cuts.
You’ll never outthink a free market.
An office full of government functionaries is simply no match for the creativity of the free market.
WikiLeaks revelation: U.S. government not terribly competent.
The WikiLeaks story is simply staggering. In case you’ve missed it released on the Internet classified U.S. documents.
Capitalism to the rescue.
The 33 miners in Chile who were quite literally resurrected from their grave this week owe their lives in no small measure to two men. The first is Chilean president Sebastián Piñera.
The Obama government; far afield and ineffectual.
NASA and the New Black Panthers party come together to illustrate how far afield we have strayed. First, NASA.
What an 11th century king can teach Obama.
Two years ago last week, then Senator Obama won the Minnesota Democratic primary and in so doing clinched the party’s nomination for president.
Health care has never been the issue.
As the dirge that is the health care debate drags on I would remind everyone that it’s not about health care.
Thomas Jefferson saw 220 years into the future.
Thomas Jefferson couldn’t have known specifically about the special senate election in Massachusetts but he certainly knew that such moments would come.
A better burger made a better America.
In 1951, a short, round, jolly Greek immigrant named Jack Koustoubardis began cooking hamburgers in a tiny little spot on Hillcrest Avenue in Dallas just down the hill from SMU. The place is still there and it’s called the Burger House. Everybody knew Jack. (His real name was actually Prometheus. Jack is the name he chose to authenticate his new status as an American.) The Burger House opened at 11 in the morning, closed at...
Have you hugged James Madison lately?
Exactly 220 years ago today, the first Congress of the United States approved twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of those proposed articles were eventually ratified and enshrined as the Bill of Rights. Prior to the birth of the United States, nearly every citizen on earth was to one degree or another under the rule of a czar or a king or a potentate of...
Government Motors: No way to run a railroad.
How do you feel about Barack Obama effectively being the chief executive officer of General Motors and voting 60 percent of the stock? I hate it. I wonder what Milton Friedman would say. Milton Friedman was a celebrated economist whose views on taxation, monetary policy and business regulation informed the likes of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Mr. Friedman was in Asia and was taken to a job site where workers were digging a canal....