by Daniel Greenfield {sultanknish.blogspot.com} ~ Jerry Brown, California’s outgoing governor, wants environmentalism to be his legacy. It’s certainly a better legacy than the 3 people murdered in his final month in office by illegal alien criminals whom his sanctuary state law protected from ICE detainers. But Brown’s environmental legacy is equally terrible. Governor Brown earned…
Thursday Top Headlines by Media Editors: This just in: Deficit due to spending, not tax cuts, says Congressional Budget Office (The Resurgent) Republicans kill resolution saying government shutdowns are bad (Washington Examiner) Twenty-nine Republican representatives vote with Democrats to boost federal salaries 2.6% (Washington Examiner) House Democrats reject GOP proposal to block raises for federal…
We’ve long chronicled the incredibly obnoxious government cronyism incredibly huge Amazon (Market Cap: $779 billion) garners. Uber-Crony Amazon – Is About To Get The Biggest Crony Deal In DC’s Awful History Amazon: Government – And Its Crony, Monopoly Straight-Jacket How Crony Corrupt Is Amazon? The Right And Left Are Both Nauseated By It Amazon gets…
Kamala Harris has announced her campaign for President in 2020. The freshman California senator immediately announced she wanted to abolish private health insurance and have the government pay for all medical treatment. What could possibly go wrong? She’s also against the First Amendment, the Second Amendment and most of the others. She’d probably be against…
Wednesday Top Headlines by Media Editors: Trump’s 2020 budget delayed by shutdown (The Hill) Economic growth paid for 20% of GOP tax cuts, new CBO data show (Investor’s Business Daily) Pentagon will be sending several thousand more troops to the southern border (Associated Press) In break with past policy, U.S. tells first asylum seeker to…
One of the very many impediments to getting less government in DC – is inertia. The Deep State – is very, very real. And is filled to overflowing with bureaucrats who want to at the very least maintain the bloated status quo – when not growing government wherever and whenever they can. So when a…
by Christopher Chantrill {americanthinker.com} ~ I guess I must be living in a dream world. I thought the science was pretty well settled on big government programs and the administrative state. The programs don’t work because they can’t compute prices, and the thousands of administrators can’t outperform the millions in the market. I thought that…
Tuesday Top Headlines by Media Editors: Pew Research Center survey says Americans want both parties to move to the right (The Daily Wire) Five facts on the deal to (temporarily) end the shutdown (RealClearPolicy) Trump to deliver State of the Union Address on Feb. 5 (The Hill) low;ife-Kamala Harris vows to get rid of private…
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…
by Daniel Greenfield {sultanknish.blogspot.com} ~ Like a preacher tiptoeing out of a brothel, the Democrat Party quietly dropped its sponsorship of the Women’s March. Like most of the other lefty establishment groups slowly backing away from its pro-Farrakhan leadership, the DNC offered a non-denial and no condemnation of the group’s anti-Semitism. Instead of condemning the…
