DC
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ConstitutionGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
There’s So Much DC Cronyism – The Private Sector Wants It Against Government
by Seton Motley August 4, 2021We’ve reached the point where private companies are demanding crony favoritism – against the government.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
DC: The Home of Ridiculous Hearings and Terrible Ideas
by Seton Motley July 28, 2021This idiotic Congressional exercise also serves as cover for other idiotic Congressional exercises.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Does Starbucks Think Virtue Signaling Can “Save the Planet”?
by Paul Driessen December 3, 2018Will corporate and government green-washing save Earth from inflated or phony eco scares?
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Occupational Licensing Puts the Hurt on Consumers
by Arianna Wilkerson May 15, 2018Left-wing advocates of expanding government say efforts to repeal occupational licensing laws are an attack on public safety.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Obama Holdovers Are Making Puerto Rico’s Recovery Much Less Possible
by Seton Motley September 21, 2017The most damaging and pernicious of the nigh infinite elements of the Washington, D.C. Swamp – which President Donald Trump has pledged to drain – is the leftover personnel.
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Budgets/Taxes
Back To Tax Reform: The Carried Interest Rate Should Be Kept (Or Cut)
by Seton Motley September 1, 2017About to end is the August recess Congress so richly earned with their great first-half-of-the-year work repealing Obamacare and other long-promised, Republican-control-of-Washington-contingent agenda items.
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I am a retired musician. I play three instruments – but I sang, is what I mainly did. My first band in high school was big into three-part vocal harmonies. We covered a bunch of songs – and wrote a few – that featured this rousing sound.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedGovernmentPodcast
In The Tank (ep79) – Pure (BS) Michigan, Cigarette Black Market, and Privatizing DC’s Metro
by Donald Kendal March 10, 2017Episode #79 of the In The Tank Podcast is a best-of edition. Today’s podcast features work from the Mackinac Center, the Tax Foundation, and the Cato Institute.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Many in Washington DC are Drowning in Lake Me
by Seton Motley March 15, 2016I’ve heard the following quote ascribed to National Basketball Association (NBA) player, coach and executive Pat Riley – but the Internet is not giving up the ghost on provenance to him or anyone else. As I recall, the recitation is: “That player is drowning in Lake Me.” Meaning a person who is totally self-absorbed. Transfixed by their own navel (which actually has a name – Omphaloskepsis). A person who finds himself endlessly fascinating – and utterly invaluable.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
After DC’s Snowmageddon – Some Things Should Stay Buried
by Seton Motley January 27, 2016Due to this weekend’s torrential winter downpour, we are currently in the midst of a federal government shutdown. Uh oh. We’ve been told so often by so many that a government shutdown will shake the Earth from its orbital path and send us careening into the Sun. So far, thankfully, that has not occurred.