‘Drain the Swamp’: Why Are Some Republicans Still Looking to Further Fill It?
President-elect Donald Trump turns a very memorable phrase. His “Make America Great Again” helped launch his improbable run. “Build the Wall” became […]
Tag: Politics
Keep the Lame (Duck) Cronyism out of Contact Lenses
I may be jinxing myself – but my aging eyes remain pretty good. <Knocks on wood.> So I can, with my untrammeled […]
Trump Has Repeatedly Flirted with Ending the EPA. He Absolutely Should
The $4-trillion-per-year federal government works incessantly against the private sector. Likely no wing is more pernicious than the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). […]
The Obama Legacy: If It Lives by ‘Executive Action’ – It Should Die by ‘Executive Action’
A hallmark – perhaps the hallmark – of the Barack Obama Administration is the “executive action.” The unilateral changes in law – […]
Google Fiber Cashing Government Checks – Bypassing Poor Neighborhoods Anyway
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has a current market cap value of $544 billion. The entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Taiwan is […]
New York’s Government Needs to (Re)Learn: You Can’t Spend Your Way to Prosperity
During the passage of the inanity that was the Democrats’ 2009 $878 billion “Stimulus,” Vice President Joe Biden bizarrely uttered in its […]
Election 2016: Do We Really Want Four More Years of This?
Terrible, economy-destroying policy. Delivered not by Congress – but by unilateral executive branch fiat. Delivered as special favors to political cronies. That’s […]
Those Who Can – Do. Those Who Can’t – Regulate Those Who Can
It’s how this country became the economic light of the world. Talented people – free to do amazing things. They become fabulously […]
What Obama Just Did Exemplifies Why His Economy Continues to Stink On Ice
Uncertainty. Perhaps the worst of words for private sector investors. The free market is filled to the brim with it. One rarely […]
Want a Shortage of Something? Put the Government in Charge of Its Production
The late, inordinately great man and economist Milton Friedman once rightly observed “If you put the federal government in charge of the […]