Tag: private sector

  • Transitioning from Regulatory Sclerosis to Arbitrary State Capitalism

    Transitioning from Regulatory Sclerosis to Arbitrary State Capitalism

    by William L. Kovacs, ©2025 (Sep. 2, 2025) — President Trump successfully campaigned against the Administrative State. Now, he is in the process of dismantling it. The question is what is its replacement. His campaign gave the impression that it would lead to a smaller, less active, and more efficient government. However, Trump is transitioning…

  • Federal Government Growth Fueled by the IRS

    Federal Government Growth Fueled by the IRS

    by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, ©2024 (Jan. 21, 2024) — Last month, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report, astute analysts noticed that the U.S. government was the second-largest growth area for employment. In November 2023, the federal government hired an astonishing 49,000 new workers. In contrast, private employers experienced 45,510 job losses.…

  • FDA Commissioner:  Effects of Mitigation, Possible Coronavirus Treatments, and Maintaining Supply Chain

    FDA Commissioner: Effects of Mitigation, Possible Coronavirus Treatments, and Maintaining Supply Chain

    “MITIGATION APPEARS TO BE WORKING” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 5, 2020) — On today’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn explained the process by which the agency he heads approves usage of new equipment, after which host Maria Bartiromo asked for a “status check” given that President Trump and the White House Coronavirus…

  • Deplatformed:  How Big Tech Companies & Corporate America Subvert the Second Amendment

    Deplatformed: How Big Tech Companies & Corporate America Subvert the Second Amendment

    “NON-STATE GUN CONTROL” by Sam Jacobs, ©2020, Ammo.com, CCA 4.0 (Jan. 21, 2020) — Anyone familiar with the Bible is familiar with the Mark of the Beast: Without this mark, no man may buy or sell. Regardless of one’s religious faith or lack thereof, there is an illustrative case in this biblical story: When one…

  • A $52 Trillion Fantasy

    A $52 Trillion Fantasy

    “ANOTHER GARGANTUAN GOVERNMENT PROGRAM” by Jeff Crouere, ©2019 (Nov. 2, 2019) — Leading Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has officially unveiled her “Medicare for All” plan. This program is based on fantasy financing. According to Warren, it will cost $52 trillion over ten years, but a middle-class tax increase will not be…

  • Relief on Hearing Remarks of a True Believer

    Relief on Hearing Remarks of a True Believer

    HAS SOCIALISM BEEN REPLACED IN GREECE? July 21, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: I was very pleased to watch on the Greek SKAI News Channel an address to the Greek Parliament and the populace at large by the New Greek Prime Minister – a conservative who speaks perfect English, has an MBA from Harvard and…

  • Pope Francis, Meet Nicholas Maduro

    VENEZUELA CONTINUES TO LANGUISH UNDER SOCIALIST POLICIES by Jeff Crouere, ©2013, blogging at Ringside Politics (Dec. 5, 2013) — In just a few months, Pope Francis has made quite an impact on the Catholic Church. He has shown admirable qualities of compassion and humility and offered stern warnings for Church leaders to focus on their…

  • Obama Labels 38% of Federal Employees as “Non-Essential”

    Obama Labels 38% of Federal Employees as “Non-Essential”

    A CATASTROPHE OR OPPORTUNITY? by JB Williams, ©2013 (Oct. 1, 2013) — The U.S. Federal Government currently employs approximately 2.1 million workers (not including the military), 800,000 (38%) of them, now identified as “non-essential” employees and furloughed as a result of a budget impasse between the “Anarchist” controlled House and “Communist” controlled Senate. If you haven’t…

  • Obama’s Gun Control Executive Orders, Plain English Version

    “SIEG HEIL!!!” by Bob Russell, ©2013, from Conservative Daily News (Jan. 18, 2013) — I translated the Obama Executive Orders into “peasant language.”  The Obama version is listed, with the truth following: 1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system. Insure that every…

  • Liberal Tax Plan – Grand Theft By Any Other Name!

    FROM “THE PARALLAX PROPHECIES” by Ron Ewart, ©2012 (Aug. 5, 2012) — “If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare … the powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America.”   — Alexander Hamilton NOTE:  In the interest of a full…

  • Keystone is a Winning Issue

    ROMNEY SHOULD TOUR PIPELINE ROUTE AND MEET WITH DEMOCRAT AND UNION LEADERS WHO SUPPORT IT by Deroy Murdock, ©2012 (Jul. 2, 2012) — With his recent swing-state bus tour behind him, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney should plan his next road trip. Romney should ride along the envisioned route of the Keystone XL pipeline. Along…

  • Who Wants to be the Last?

    TO RECOGNIZE THE CRIMES COMMITTED BY AN ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet (Oct. 1, 2011) — Southeast Asia: Believe it not, the subject does come up. None of us minded getting our number called when there was no end in sight; hey, people die, they get shot without even knowing it: quick, gone…

  • Obama’s Labor Union Spending Orgy to Continue

    “GET RID OF LABOR UNIONS AND YOU WILL GET RID OF SOCIALISM” by JB Williams (Sep. 14, 2011) — Barack Obama is on the campaign trail pitching yet another labor union stimulus package aimed at creating union jobs to benefit Democrats in the 2012 re-election effort. He says his plan is paid for by raising…