June 26, 2014 – 6:57 am
I mentioned a Mark Stein article in the previous post. Something else he wrote It’s worse when the supposedly impartial civil service uses those powers in the service of the ruling party: The merger of party and state is the very definition of “banana republic”. And it’s worst of all when they get away with […]
June 9, 2014 – 8:02 am
Big Government at work (Roll Call) The Department of Veterans Affairs is already in plenty of hot water over its patient backlog, and a Government Accountability Office report released this week on a similar brand of mismanagement elsewhere in the department isn’t going to help turn down the temperature. The GAO report on department management […]
May 23, 2014 – 8:30 am
Yet another problem at a VA hospital? Obama will be madder than hell, and get right on it (Fox News) A VA police officer says administrators at the hospital in Miami where he works are covering up crimes at the facility, including evidence of physical abuse of patients and drug dealing. Thomas Fiore, who still […]
May 21, 2014 – 6:47 am
It’s not like the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the nations top law enforcement agency, charged with enforcing the law, and marijuana is considered a Schedule I drug, illegal per federal law. Heck, Los Federales have placed restrictions on people using federal waters to grow marijuana. (WSJ) FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday that […]
May 16, 2014 – 3:35 pm
The Government just wants to protect the vulnerable. It’s For Your Own Good U.S. Mines Personal Health Data to Find the Vulnerable in Emergencies The phone calls were part Big Brother, part benevolent parent. When a rare ice storm threatened New Orleans in January, some residents heard from a city official who had gained access […]
May 15, 2014 – 6:57 am
At the end of the day, history will show that the Obama administration was inept, unqualified, vindictive, overly political, and secretive, among others. Whether those directly within Team Obama ordered or “suggested” targeting of Tea Party groups is not currently known. However, the attitudes of Team Obama, including Mr. Obama himself, created a perfect storm […]
April 25, 2014 – 7:22 am
Good question (Daily Caller) I haven’t been following the Cliven Bundy case because, believe it or not, southwestern grazing disputes have never been among my interests. I know the Daily Caller has done stories about him because I’ve seen the headlines, but I haven’t followed the whole thing. I haven’t written a word about him […]
April 25, 2014 – 6:54 am
Having solved all of America’s problems, it’s easy to do things like this. It’s for the kids, ya know (Yahoo) Could the beautiful and perfect airbrushed images we often see in advertisements become a thing of the past? Yes — if a bill proposed by Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and California Congresswoman Lois Capps becomes […]
April 24, 2014 – 7:55 am
Whoa, whoa, whoa, isn’t that racist? (NY Times) The Food and Drug Administration will propose sweeping new rules on Thursday that for the first time would extend its regulatory authority from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, popular nicotine delivery devices that have grown into a multibillion-dollar business with virtually no federal oversight or protections for American […]
April 23, 2014 – 8:18 am
Do as I say, not as I do (AP) The Internal Revenue Service has paid more than $2.8 million in bonuses to employees with recent disciplinary problems, including $1 million to workers who owed back taxes, a government investigator said Tuesday. More than 2,800 workers got bonuses despite facing a disciplinary action in the previous […]
