Showing posts with label Reinventing Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reinventing Government. Show all posts
Thursday, January 21, 2021

A Last Look at a Remarkable Presidency

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At Issues & Insights, " Trump’s Top-10 Triumphs ": President Donald Trump became an ex-president on Wednesday, as Joe Biden wa...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Laura Carno, Government Ruins Nearly Everything

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Laura Carno, Government Ruins Nearly Everything: Reclaiming Social Issues from Uncivil Servants .
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Donald Trump Announces Cabinet Picks, Going Big on Diversity (VIDEO)

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At the Los Angeles Times, " Trump reaches beyond loyalists and adds diversity with latest Cabinet picks ." There's video fro...
Monday, April 25, 2016

American Amnesia

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This looks interesting. Not conservative so much, but interesting nevertheless. From Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, American Amnesia: How ...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Obama Done-In by His Own Bureaucratic Incompetence

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From Gloria Borger, at CNN, " Obama defeated by his own bureaucracy ": When Barack Obama was a newbie president, there was no sh...
Friday, August 2, 2013

What Neocon Revival?

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Here's a key passage from David Brooks at the New York Time, " The Neocon Revival ": Neocons put values at the center of the...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Postal Service On its Last Legs

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I was just talking about this yesterday during my lectures on the federal bureaucracy, at the Los Angeles Times, " Postal Service is on...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Don't Look Now But Things Ain't Going So Great for ObamaCare

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Rising premiums aren't a new story, but making it to the front-page of the Wall Street Journal yesterday is certainly worth noting. See:...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

America's Crisis of Big Government Cronyism and Corruption

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The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs is now available online. I just finished reading Fareed Zakaria's marquee essay, " Ca...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

When Work is Punished

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From Tyler Durden, " The Tragedy of America's Welfare State ." Exactly two years ago, some of the more politically biased pr...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

'I voted to fix it, you voted for the stupid short sighted @ssh0les who broke it...'

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Here's this must-read ass-stomping comment at Small Dead Animals : Featured Comment : Davenport said: "I'm going to head of...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Mitt Romney's Declaration of War

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An outstanding essay, from Professor Paul Rahe, at Richochet, " Romney's Declaration of War " (via Instapundit ): In choosin...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

California Needs Massive Reforms to Reverse Its Economic Decline

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Well, this is exactly what I argued yesterday in my post on the fiscal crises of state and local governments. See Michael Boskin and John...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Local Governments Face Fiscal Desperation Amid Soaring Pension and Retiree Health Costs

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I've got two related pieces that were front-page news stories yesterday at the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times , respectively....
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Obama Now Says He Wants to Reform Government

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I watched the president's announcement. When he started touting the "billions" saved reforming the check mailing process I alm...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Save the U.S. Postal Service!

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Last week we were studying bureaucracies in my American government course. We discuss the various types of bureaucratic organizations, inclu...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Postal Workers Union Won't Take Down 'Misleading' Ad

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At Daily Caller , " Issa calls on Postal Workers Union to stop running ‘misleading ad’ about USPS financial situation ," and Fox N...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

O.C. Grand Jury Questions Officials' Salaries in 3 Cities

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At Los Angeles Times . It's not as bad at the Bell scandal, but there's some big taxpayers money involved: A first-of-its-kind repor...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Governor-elect Nikki Haley on Hannity

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She hasn't been in the limelight so much. Good to see her. I'm envious for the people of South Carolina, considering California'...
Friday, December 3, 2010

WikiLeaks' Dishonesty and Hypocrisy

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The latest WikiLeaks dump could be breaking a record for provoking debate. I've said a lot already. But I'm thinking back to how bad...