Tag: federal agencies
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SCOTUS Ignites a Glorious Regulatory Reform Revolution
by William L. Kovacs, ©2024 (Jul. 8, 2024) — The recent decisions by the conservative U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) at the end of its 2024 term are of significant importance in the realm of regulatory reform. These landmark rulings, which end judicial deference of agency decisions and require jury trials when agencies seek penalties, mark…
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Breaking: Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Jun. 28, 2024) — In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has overruled the Chevron doctrine, significantly altering the landscape of administrative law. This ruling comes from the case of Loper Bright Enterprises et al. v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al., with the Court’s opinion finalized on…
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Congress and Courts Enable Energy and Climate Fantasy and Tyranny
by Paul Driessen, ©2024 (Feb. 9, 2024) — The left end of the political spectrum is relentlessly pursuing the transformation of America’s society, history, economy, speech, borders, governing systems, healthcare, energy and living standards. What it cannot secure via the ballot box and alliances with the legacy media and academic institutions, it works to impose…
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Illegal Immigration Costs More than 13 of 15 Federal Departments
by William L. Kovacs, ©2024 (Jan. 17, 2024) — The federal government is very slick in sticking the cost on others for programs it wants implemented but wants to avoid paying for. It sticks the cost of $2 trillion of regulations annually on business. It imposes hundreds of billions more on state and local governments…
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Who Gains When Chaos Reigns? Pt. 2
HAS THE US GOVERNMENT BECOME THE POLICING AND LITIGATING ARM OF THE ISLAMIC FAITH? by Steven Neill, ©2017 (Jul. 13, 2017) — [Editor’s Note: Please see Part 1 of this series here for proper context.] The government is also extremely active in pouring gasoline on this tinderbox as the US Senate just passed Resolution 118,…
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Who Gains When Chaos Reigns? Pt. 1
“FEDERAL ARMS RACE UNLIKE ANYTHING IN HISTORY” by Steven Neill, ©2017 (Jul. 12, 2017) — “Ordo Ab Chao” — Order out of Chaos, Count de Grasse Violence and the Democratic Party go together like the Black Death and fleas. Even for them, the increase in Democrat violence since 2009, the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland, Occupy…
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Why America Is So Hard To Fix
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Apr. 9, 2017) — “American bureaucracies are a blood-sucking enterprise that eats at the very heart of freedom, liberty and the property rights of all Americans, digs deep into the American economy and burns up countless billions of taxpayer dollars in unneeded and unwanted…
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100+ Years of Progressive Rule Unraveling
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Feb. 5, 2017) — The Democrats are shocked, dumbstruck, blinded-sided and apoplectic! How could a brash, untamed, crude billionaire businessman appear on the political scene and shake the very timbers of 100 plus years of Progressive rule? How dare this champion slayer of…
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Draining the Cultural Swamp in our Children’s Minds
“PROPERTY AND FREEDOM ARE INSEPARABLE” by John Anthony, Sustainable Freedom Lab, ©2017 (Jan. 2, 2017) — While Donald Trump maneuvers to cleanse government’s cesspool, communities face a bigger challenge at home. Academics, classroom teachers, newspapers and television, movie stars and the Cultural Arts are seducing our children into believing it is their duty to relinquish…
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A Trump Strategy to Neuter HUD’s Attacks on Local Rule
FEDERAL AGENCIES’ POWER HAS SURPASSED THAT OF CONGRESS by John Anthony, ©2016, Sustainable Freedom Lab (Nov. 15, 2016) — When President Reagan took office in 1980, he promised to reduce the number of federal agencies and rules. Eight years later, his Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief failed to eliminate a single agency or even…
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How HUD Makes Lousy Programs Look Great
“LITTLE PROTECTION AGAINST FEDERAL DISHONESTY” by John Anthony, Sustainable Freedom Lab, ©2016 (Oct. 27, 2016) — When federal agencies promote programs, like Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing or Common Core, they conduct sophisticated and often deceptive marketing campaigns that cover up their downsides. Flowery slogans like “Transportation options are fundamental to having a shot at the…
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Washington’s Despotic Lawlessness
WE’VE HAD A “TRY AND STOP ME” PRESIDENT. NOW WE NEED ONE WHO WILL INVALIDATE THOSE ACTIONS. by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Mar. 21, 2016) — Washington is out of control. Legislators, judges and unelected bureaucrats want to control our lives, livelihoods and living standards, with no accountability even for major errors, calculated deception, or deliberate,…
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The Oregon Standoff Was A Predictable Reaction to Oppression
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Feb. 14, 2016) — “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” Martin Luther King, Jr. * * * * * * * * * * * When rational…