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Relevance: 41% Posted on: September 12, 2011
A business filed for bankruptcy last week. These have been tough times, so that’s not a shock. What makes the story juicy is that the FBI raided the company’s headquarters two days later. The company? Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer. A few months earlier, it had been boasting a profitable…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: March 22, 2011
I don’t know if David Schubert is guilty. You don’t either. But it wouldn’t shock me if a jury convicted him, or if he pled out. You probably wouldn’t be surprised, either. The fact that we aren’t shocked is what is shocking about the story. You see, Schubert is the…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: December 14, 2014
What we learn when an insider blurts out the impolitic truth. Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for more reading, or discussion, below. Wikipedia: King v. Burwell Politico: “Will Jonathan Gruber Topple Obamacare?” by David Nather YouTube: “Lack of transparency is a huge advantage," starring Gruber himself
Relevance: 40% Posted on: October 1, 2017
On what media covers. Don't miss it — at Townhall.com. Andrew Breitbart press conference Washington Post: Former U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner Sentenced in Sexting Scandal Breitbart: Blue State Blues — Anthony Weiner Fate Is Nothing to Celebrate Esquite: Anthony Weiner — Seriously? Breitbart: Study: CNN Barely Covers Menendez Trial; Provided…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: August 24, 2019
Paul Jacob's recap of the week begins with a tale of press bias, insider powerlust, taxation, and . . . Tim Eyman. https://youtu.be/21W1IEWk0i8 This Week in Common Sense, Part One: August 23, 2019.
Relevance: 40% Posted on: January 4, 2022
The revolving door between regulated big business and regulatory agencies is a known problem. “Regulatory capture” is one of the concepts economists have used to explain it. We got used to this sort of corruption in finance: under the Bush and Obama administrations, with Goldman Sachs serving as the Executive…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: January 12, 2018
With President Trump endorsing a return to earmarks, House Republicans too are reportedly “reconsidering” their usefulness and pondering “how they might ease back into the practice.” Lawmakers fret that they have lost too much power by giving up this instrument of corruption. (Not their characterization.) Wikipedia defines “earmark” as a…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: November 16, 2018
Democracy can degrade into other things, even strong-man rule. To avoid such degradation, we have a ready prophylactic. Term limits. Which hamper would-be dictators-for-life, including entrenched oligarchs in the legislature. Many countries illustrate the point. But take Peru, where the new head of state, Martin Vizcarra, has been combatting political corruption by supporting a referendum to impose…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: October 2, 2016
On October 2, 1789, George Washington sent the proposed Constitutional amendments (the United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification. On the same date in 1919, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed, preventing him from reacting to the economic downturn following the…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: December 18, 2011
One year ago, on Dec. 18, 2010, protests broke out in Tunisia following Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation death in protest of police corruption and ill treatment. This began what came to be known as the Arab Spring, protests throughout the Arab world and the toppling of regimes in Egypt, Libya and…