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FeaturedGovernment
Impeachment Hearings Reveal Sordid Side of Big Bureaucracy
by Chris Talgo December 5, 2019Regardless of your view on impeachment, the hearings have exposed the breathtaking size and scope of the U.S. government’s bureaucratic arm.
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The reason why “drain the swamp” resonates with so many Americans is simple: It embodies their antipathy for the bloated, out-of-touch federal government.
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EducationFeatured
Bureaucracy Devours Funds that Could Support Teaching
by Robert Holland June 6, 2018While teachers have walked off their jobs in several states this spring to protest what they believe to be low pay and lack of classroom resources to support teaching, armies of bureaucrat have been bickering over implementing the massive Every Student Succeeds Act.
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Government
No More Cronyism: Let’s Have Government Acknowledge The Paperless 21st Century
by Seton Motley January 21, 2018You have, of course, spent the last decade-plus watching the entirety of the actually-private sector “go paperless.”
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Economics
Shocker: Government Bureaucrats Don’t Understand Business Or Economics
by Seton Motley December 17, 2016It is one of the many, many reasons our nation’s Founding Fathers profoundly limited government. They trusted businessmen much more than they trusted government bureaucrats.
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This new book suggests that bureaucratic disdain and disregard for the public results, at least in part, from the wide gulf in the life experiences of ordinary Americans and the denizens of official Washington.
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FeaturedLegal Affairs
Keep an Eye on this Key Takings Case at SCOTUS, Murr v. Wisconsin
by David S. D'Amato April 20, 2016A government taking occurs when the regulatory strictures placed on a piece of property so limit its use that it is stripped of economic viability. Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City is the leading case in the Supreme Court’s regulatory takings jurisprudence.