It’s always helpful when advocates for ever larger government remind us of how utterly unnecessary bigger government – and its advocates – actually are. We just saw – and will soon see again – a percentage of the federal government’s approximately 850,000 “non-essential personnel” get furloughed due to a government shutdown. I don’t call them […]
American colleges have for decades now been ongoing, rolling disaster areas. They are Leftist claptrap outfits that take mind-numbed victims of calamitous government primary and secondary education – and radicalize them to join the fight to end Western Civilization. Conservative vanguard William F. Buckley wrote about his atrocious experience at Yale – in the early […]
The government has spent the last half century-plus – in as many ways as is bureaucratically possible – picking winners and losers of its implemented policies. Are you a member of this or that government-preferred group? Government grants you lavish favors. Are you a member of this or that government un-preferred group? Government dumps all […]
One of the more interesting aspects of the Internet revolution and evolution – has been tracking average Americans’ learning curve on what actually makes the Internet work. Your data – is mostly what makes the Internet work. The old saw is: “If something on the Internet is ‘free’ – you’re the product.” Which means: Internet […]
What do governments have – that no private sector company has? Employer-designated “non-essential personnel.” Merriam Webster’s dictionary offers up the following “non-essential” synonyms: “Dispensable, gratuitous, inessential, needless, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unwarranted.” Thank God governments hire oh-so-many of these people. We are in the midst of a federal government shutdown. A result of which – is […]
We are in the Age of Donald Trump. Which means we are saddled with a small but pernicious cabal known as Never Trump. Never Trumpers are for the most part not Leftists. Leftists have been Never <Fill in Name of Non-Leftist> – forever. Never Trumpers are almost every elected Republican – in DC, and much […]
Everyone wants everything to be better, stronger, faster – and cheaper. It’s human nature. When we’re spending our money – we always want a better deal. When we’re spending other peoples’ money – we don’t give a rat’s rear end about a better deal. Price is no option – when we’re not paying the price. […]
For those who don’t pay particularly close attention to politics – those on the Left lie. A LOT. They lie about Donald Trump-Russia collusion. They lie about their Russia collusion. They lie about green energy being green and energy – it’s neither. They lie about government-run health insurance. They lie about government-run medicine. They lie […]
For people not steeped in American cinematic history – Duck Soup: “The country of Freedonia is in the middle of a financial crisis and on the brink of revolution….(T)he government appoints Rufus T Firefly as its president. However, Mr Firefly shuns the pomp and pretentiousness of government; along with the prudence and rationality of it […]
I am for MUCH less government than the massive, nauseating amounts with which we are currently befouled. The federal government alone spends MORE THAN FOUR TRILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR. The entire United States economy’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – the total productivity of every productive man, woman and child in the nation – is around […]