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The Bureaucracy Is Now More Powerful Than Congress

by Gary Galles | Nov 27, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles

Who creates federal laws? Civics books say it is Congress, but the real answer today may be the executive branch. Earlier this year, James Gattuso and Diane Katz reported that just the 229 major regulations issued since 2009 added over $100 billion in annual costs...

Thanksgiving Fun for the Whole Family!

by Charles Goyette | Nov 17, 2016 | Blog

President Obama has set a new world indoor record... for the promulgation of bureaucracy. His administration has added well over 600,000 pages of regulation to the Federal Register in his tenure. And he still has two months to go! The Competitive Enterprise...

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TSA Gets a Raise

Are you bummed because inflation's got you again wit' yer broke ass? Well take heart. Federal Government employees are doing better than ever at your expense. So at least they've got that going for them.

Lexington and Concord: The Fire Begins

The divorce proceedings between London and America began on this day in 1775, 249 years ago. In Episode 011 of my podcast, I did a historical memorium to the events at Lexington and Concord. In honor of this day, give it a listen.

The “Israel Has the Most Moral Army in the World” Trope

Delusional supporters of Israel’s genocide in Gaza claim the IDF is “the most moral army in the world”. Here’s the stark reality.

Wheels Within Wheels: Complexity is Real in War

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras...

F35 Fat Amy Follies: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Two Trillion Dollars... Pretty soon, we're talking real money. So we put this in perspective: Two trillion U.S. dollars in $100 notes would be 1,356 miles high. If they were one dollar bills, it would be 135,600 miles high (the moon is 238,900 miles from Earth)....

New Hampshire GOP Adds ‘Defend the Guard’ to Party Platform

With a resounding "Aye," Defend the Guard was made an official part of the New Hampshire Republican Party platform. On Saturday, April 13, the New Hampshire GOP held a meeting to vote on platform amendments. Among the list of proposals was the following text: "Demand...

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