There was a great short article in Forbes Magazine November 10 by George Leef. It also brought back memories from my law school days when I wrote about a very similar topic. Leef’s article was about the Raisin Administrative Committee—yes you read it correctly a Federal agency named the Raisin Administrative Committee. If only it […]
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Heard It Through the Grapevine
13 Nov 2014
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What are Republicans Saying? Nothing Much Yet.
11 Nov 2014
Something was missing from the recent Republican campaign efforts. Though they did retake the Senate and several governor’s mansions, most were strangely silent on what might have been some winning issues. These included Obamacare, school reform and reforming bureaucracy and regulation. Obamacare did receive some attention, which is good, and all the new senators vowed […]
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Another Great One Dies
05 Nov 2014
Gordon Tullock died the other day. He was about 92. For those who didn’t know, Tullock was a founder of the Public Choice School of economic thought, famous for its use of microeconomic principles applied to problems of government, in particular government failure. Tullock was known as the “inventor” of the concept of rent-seeking, known […]
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Tiny Houses and Tiny Government
29 Oct 2014
Have you heard about the “Tiny House” movement? Many probably haven’t, though some may have lived in tiny houses growing up (that was “accidental” unlike this movement). This movement however is a conscious attempt to provide affordable housing in cities where housing is all but unaffordable except for the well-off. As you might expect, some […]
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Ebola or CDC: Which is the Worse Problem?
16 Oct 2014
Ebola, CDC and bureaucracy By now we all know about the Ebola virus and about the Americans who have contracted it. What has until recently not been well-known is the behind-the-scenes role of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). And the bigger story of the CDC is its representative role of large bureaucratic agencies in […]
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A Modest Proposal
22 Sep 2014
It seems an intruder made it onto the White House grounds and through an unlocked front door the other day. The Secret Service didn’t unleash the guard dogs on him, for reasons unknown. And why the front door was unlocked, no one knows yet—although it is a little humorous. So what is the plan of […]
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A few days ago I wrote a blog on bureaucracy and promised to follow it up by addressing the question of the compatibility of this form of organization with Scripture. As Abraham Kuyper once said, there is not one part of the universe that God cannot call His (my paraphrase) and that includes our thinking […]
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I hope everyone is still following the various “scandals” (I want to be sensitive to the liberals, who deny any scandals) continuing to unfold, or just plain continuing: IRS, VA, illegals at the border, EPA efforts, the HHS Obamacare mess, etc. If you keep up with things like this, have you noticed how many involve […]
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Bill Bloat, or, Statutory Satiation
25 Jun 2014
Congress hasn’t passed all that much legislation in some time, or at least not anything much of significance. That may be a good thing. But in this blog I want to take a look at a very disturbing trend in the legislation that has passed. Below I have listed some of the most important bills […]
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Kill the Beast! Kill It!
29 May 2014
I keep reading more accounts of the Veterans Affairs hospital scandals and the proposed solutions, and I am about to tear my hair out (sorry, no “trigger warning” there for the violence). One commentator has suggested the the VA hospital system be abolished and veterans be given vouchers to “regular” hospitals. That is a very […]
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