Donald Trump ran for the presidency in no small part – on his promise to Drain the Swamp. Business-as-usual in DC – has for decades been demonstrably and acceleratingly awful. As the federal government grew to the current $4.5-trillion-per year monstrous monstrosity – the cronyism and dirty-dealing grew right along with it. Crony companies know […]
The planet has a bit of a nuclear weapon proliferation problem. Many of the Good Guys have them. The US Nuclear Arsenal The Story of How Britain Got Nuclear Weapons France Has Lots of Nuclear Weapons India’s Nuclear Weapons Arsenal Keeps Getting Bigger and Bigger Included herein is a Good Guy – who may or […]
That’s not a massive over-contribution at all. We’ve oft written about huge companies using their huge wallets – to dictate huge cronyism from huge governments. No gaggle of companies has done it more and more effectively – than the Big Tech companies. Silicon Valley Robber Barons Are Using Government As a Weapon Against Us Silicon […]
Barack Obama spent his first two years as President – enjoying a Democrat-controlled Congress that was as awful for America as he was. The Democrat Congress passed a lot of really awful legislation – which Obama very happily signed. We the People loathed said legislation. So We incepted the Tea Party Movement – and elected […]
One of the very many national course corrections President Donald Trump is making – is renegotiating REALLY-bad-for-US global trade deals. We have been the planet’s largest economy for more than half a century. Our current Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is $19.4 trillion. And our trade deals – look like we have the purchasing power of […]
There are variations of a joke that have been making their way round the Internet. A version goes something like this: Q: What is the difference between pedophiles and Republicans? A: Washington, D.C. and Big Tech will work with pedophiles. We all know how both DCs Swamp Creatures and the monstrous Big Tech monsters feel […]
One heinous aspect of the heinous history of the woefully misnamed Affordable Care Act – aka Obamacare – was…and is…the vociferous backing of the inanity by huge insurance companies. Notice I didn’t say small insurance companies. Few such animals still exist – most having already been murdered by government medicine programs. Small insurance companies can’t […]
Uber-huge Big Tech company Amazon – is a monster (Market Cap: $906 billion). Amazon founder and chief bottle washer Jeff Bezos – is the world’s richest human. It appears that from their July 5, 1994 beginning – getting huge was Bezos’ only objective. For nearly two decades, Amazon Retail sacrificed profits to growth – and […]
We less government types are perpetually chagrined by the very many failings of government. We want government to do so very little – per the Constitution. Yet government does so very much – in defiance of the Constitution. We would like government to do things well. But we know human nature renders that nigh impossible. […]
It was March 20, 2018. Uber-government-cronyism recipient Amazon – was on the verge of receiving its biggest dose of cronyism ever. It was supposed to be in the bag. So much so – that even our initial headline was premature. Defense Dept Gives Trump Enemy Bezos Ten-Year, Monopoly Cloud Contract This was in keeping with […]