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…
“Human nature” – actually applies to way more than just humans. Gazelles – like to consume vegetables. It’s their nature. Cheetahs – like to consume meat. It’s their nature. Governments – like to consume constituents. It’s their nature. Seventh century B.C. Greece’s philosopher Aesop – understood it way back when. Timeless wisdom – is timeless…
President Donald Trump and his Twitter account – are indispensable weapons in the war against the Left-Deep State-Swamp cabal. The vast majority of Republicans and the Right’s alleged leaders are…quite frankly useless in this (and almost every other regard). They have stood by and silent while the Left took over everything – Washington, D.C., the…
Technology entrepreneur and angel investor Peter Thiel – is a Big Tech anomaly. Thiel was a co-founder of what became mammoth online payment company PayPal. He struck it really rich when they sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. Thiel took that coin and started Clarium Capital – an investment management and hedge…
And then they should kill it. Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio recently became the latest Republican to weigh in on a huge hunk of cronyism the Department of Defense (DoD) is on the verge of almost certainly handing to uber-crony Amazon. Rubio Calls for Delay of Defense Department’s $10 Billion Cloud Bid: “Senator Marco Rubio…
Too many local governments look at their business permitting processes – as opportunities to gouge the companies simply trying to provide goods and services to the people who live there. This is certainly the case with companies that provide Internet access. As we diligently work to ensure everyone in America is connected – and win…
Federalism is too infrequently mentioned. And when it does come up – it is woefully misrepresented and abused. Let’s check with our old friend Merriam Webster: “The distribution of power in an organization (such as a government) between a central authority and the constituent units.” Our Constitution is fully imbued with decentralized federalism. The Founding…
An ironic thing about government cronyism. Only the hugest companies – who need the government help the least – can afford to bribe and buy it. (This is NOT a call for Little Guy cronyism. We’d like everyone treated equally by the government and the law – per the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment.) Monster company Amazon…
We didn’t win the (first) Cold War with Communist Russia – by handing them trillions of dollars. Embargoes and Sanctions – Cold War Sanctions: “In 1948, the United States began a campaign of economic sanctions against the Soviet Union that would last more than fifty years…. “For many years, the embargo on the Soviet Union…
Most unfortunately, governments at every level – federal, state and local – have grown to exceedingly obese size and status. Making them corpulent targets for bribes from monster companies – to ladle government gravy atop the monster companies’ biscuits. Governments are monstrously outsized. So too, of course, is the cronyism monster companies seek and are…
