Liberty
Superman meets ‘grift-industrial complex’
Giancarlo Sopo writes for National Review Online about over-the-top reaction to a major new superhero movie. Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane . . . no,…
Peace Corps
independent agency and volunteer program run by the United States Government
Liberty
Philanthropy and ‘Big Aid’
Kevin Williamson‘s latest column at National Review Online highlights a challenge to the standard model for philanthropy. Philanthropy can be a funny business. Let’s say you’re a do-gooder in Malawi…
Elections & Public Integrity
Making government work for you: John Kerry family edition
Who knew the U.S. State Department offered a good way to make money at the taxpayers’ expense? Well, besides Hillary Clinton, her successor at State seems to have learned that…
Elections & Public Integrity
Malkin decries the Obama administration’s ‘war on watchdogs’
Michelle Malkin‘s latest column at Human Events examines the Obama administration’s dismal record regarding internal government watchdogs. In the sadistic era of fraudulent Hope and Change, inspectors general inside the…
Elections & Public Integrity
Government’s inspector generals not thrilled with Obama administration
Hans von Spakovsky details for the Daily Signal a recent complaint lodged by more than half of the federal government’s inspector generals. In an unprecedented letter, a majority of the…
Elections & Public Integrity
Is AmeriCorps another example of a government program that should go away?
James Bovard explains for Wall Street Journal readers why he’s dubious about efforts to expand AmeriCorps. A sort of domestic Peace Corps, AmeriCorps was created in 1993 to place adult…
Liberty
Generation ‘Why Bother?’
I just came across an interesting column in The New York Times from three weeks ago discussing Generation Y’s reticence to move to other states to pursue career opportunities: The…
Liberty
Big things vs. good things
“It’s too bad things aren’t a whole lot worse in America. Then people would be more eager to allow government to make massive changes.” Read Jon Meacham‘s latest editor’s column…
Liberty
Obama’s transition website
I visited the Obama transition website and used the search function to search for “liberty.” I got one hit. The only time the site uses the word liberty is to…
Liberty
The debate
McCain has already blown the first question. He had a freeway-size opening to talk about Obama’s connection to corrupt Fannie and Freddie execs and he didn’t take it. He also,…
Liberty
Re: Ask what you … heck with it, to be patriotic, just support laws forcing people off oil
The Politico has the Obama speech up. In my prediction about what Obama would say, I was wrong and right. I hinted that Obama would take the same tack he…
Liberty
Our exit strategy is working
I hate to see this happen. I wish I had a dollar for every hour I spent at Rhein-Main, first as a U.S. Army dependent and later as an Air…