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Relevance: 100% Posted on: December 21, 2014
This weekend at Townhall, a look at a “favorite son,” the latest “leader” to dip his toe into presidential waters. America doesn’t need that kind of leadership. Click on over, give it a read, then come back here to make sure you've got a grasp on the extent of our…
Relevance: 87% Posted on: February 20, 2015
The political insider’s method of dealing with scandal since President Richard Nixon’s 1974 resignation has evolved. President Bill Clinton marshaled the stonewall defense, and his scandals didn’t quite stick, even as incriminating facts came to light. Nowadays, it seems like politicians can stay in office no matter what the misstep,…
Relevance: 84% Posted on: January 15, 2009
Rent control is said to reduce rents. Economists disagree. Only some rents remain low, compared to others, in cities with rent control. If the cities foreswore rent control, most rents would tend to be lower. There are other reasons to oppose rent control. The policy increases social stratification, as sociologists…
Relevance: 83% Posted on: April 13, 2009
When Ted Stevens, former senator from Alaska, was convicted on seven felony counts of corruption, I stressed that what I knew about Stevens’s corruption was not what was debated in court but what happened, quite openly, in the U.S. Senate. Do you remember my verdict? Here’s what I said: “[I]f…
Relevance: 82% Posted on: August 27, 2017
The weird world of Trump’s America: it must be frustrating to be an insider now, since all the old rules about loyalty, decency, and acceptability have been turned on their head. This has important consequences for future politics. Click on over to Townhall for the Common Sense of an uncommon…
Relevance: 80% Posted on: September 2, 2020
The true way to abolish corruption is to suppress the opportunity for corruption. But the more government and municipal undertakings increase in number and importance, the more these opportunities will multiply.Yves Guyot, Where and Why Public Ownership Has Failed (1914).
Relevance: 70% Posted on: August 12, 2008
How long does it take for the wheels of justice to grind ’round to grab a corrupt politician? In Senator Ted Stevens’s case, the answer is “a long time.” It took a year for the government to charge him with anything, after raiding his Alaska home on July 30, 2007.…
Relevance: 69% Posted on: May 13, 2023
Paul Jacob provides variations on a theme. The theme was whistled (in the dark?) several times earlier this week. But here it receives its fullest treatment: https://soundcloud.com/thisweekincommonsense/even-non-corruption-would-be-leadership-by-default Once again, Paul discusses reader mail, from this website. Well: one letter. Listen to see whose!
Relevance: 66% Posted on: April 14, 2012
“The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on…
Relevance: 66% Posted on: October 26, 2023
It’s a truism of popular political discourse: corruption in Washington is endemic. The fact that so many people who serve in Congress come out far richer than when they went in is testament to the corruption, not selfless service. Studies document how it is done, regulatory regimes monitor the money…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: August 16, 2014
The War on Drugs led to the use of police state tactics and widespread corruption. http://youtu.be/MMRqOBQqsOo
Relevance: 60% Posted on: July 9, 2001
Do we really have the right to free speech? Our campaign finance laws, and the "burdens" they impose on First Amendment rights of free speech and free association are often justified by the courts because of what the courts call "the compelling state interest" in combating "corruption and the appearance…
Relevance: 59% Posted on: November 17, 2011
Splitting the country between the “99 percent” and the “1 percent” scapegoats successful people. Being rich is a good thing . . . unless the wealth is obtained dishonestly. Which brings me to Congress. Last Sunday, 60 Minutes featured Peter Schweizer, author of Throw Them All Out, a new book…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: April 3, 2016
If you needed money, you could get money. Kenyetta Wilbourn Snapp, 40, in a series of exclusive interviews. The children are not the focus, money is the focus. And what happens to the money no one knows because the money does not reach the classroom. Beverly Jones, former New Jersey…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: January 8, 2012
“I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.”
Relevance: 57% Posted on: November 13, 2000
Perhaps it's no longer news that lobbyists and politicians have become rip-off artists. But the extent to which our political culture has been corrupted, and the arrogance with which these folks including judges tolerate the sleaze still makes me see red. Gerard Evans is a "million-dollar-a-year super-lobbyist" in Maryland. But…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: June 29, 2009
Ah, these United States — which is most corrupt? New Jersey’s a traditional favorite. Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for governor this year, built his reputation as a federal prosecutor convicting 130 state and local politicians of corruption. But Illinois is a contender: Think ousted Governor Rod Blagojevich. Now, make…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: January 17, 2012
The Federal Reserve is America’s central bank, and its managers are political appointees. But transparency — an essential feature of the republican form of government — is something that doesn’t quite describe the information we (and our representatives) get about that institution. “Opacity” is probably the best word to describe…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: October 22, 2018
On Friday, the Arkansas Supreme Court struck Issue 3, a citizen-initiated measure to restore legislative term limits, from Arkansas’ November ballot. The Court declared, 4-3, that there weren’t enough “valid” signatures. This, despite opponents never disputing that more than enough Arkansas voters had signed the petition. In recent years, legislators…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: January 15, 2022
What is? you may ask. Well, a new virus. But so also are lies. And corruption. And love of big government über alles. Which is why you should listen to Paul Jacob every weekend. Paul rethinks the big stories of the week, and serves as a watchdog on government and…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: October 15, 2017
If ever it needed proving before, it is proven, now: power is not just politics. It is influence, as well. And Hollywood folks have been very influential. Harvey Weinstein highest among them. And apparently most corrupt. Resist the abusers of power and click on over to Townhall. Then come back…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: June 27, 2014
When I write about “government corruption” I usually mean one of three things: Government personnel breaking their public trust and “working for themselves,” as in taking kick-backs and the like. You know, like Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.) taking $2.3 million in bribes, and Hillary Clinton’s cattle future trades of a…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: December 1, 2016
When Hillary Clinton assured her insider sponsors (as we learned through WikiLeaks) that there would be a crucial difference between what she tells the people and what her actual policies would be, she was not merely admitting to a private and a public face. The President is legally, and by…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: January 14, 2011
Local government is hard. In rural areas, it can be like organizing an ongoing bake-sale. In metropolitan areas, it’s more like running a small country. Today’s big metropolitan governments tend to be run by un-term-limited oligarchs, so of course corruption is endemic. When there’s little competition for power and scant…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: January 11, 2017
Yesterday, we discovered that the biggest term limits opponent in Arkansas — former state senator Jon Woods — also allegedly led an elaborate legislative fraud scheme, whereby he and a state representative traded tax dollars for cash bribes. For now, Woods is an unindicted co-conspirator. But last week, the representative…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: October 14, 2019
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Relevance: 54% Posted on: December 27, 2023
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Relevance: 54% Posted on: July 28, 2015
In the 15 states voters have enacted term limits for their state representatives and senators, those politicians and the lobbyists and heads of powerful interest groups constantly complain that the limits are a problem. I know. That’s why I like term limits. Am I a broken record on the subject?…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: July 8, 2009
Ya gotta love Lou Lang. Any public servant who can manage to exude vast indifference to the public’s disgust with endless political corruption has something going for him. As a state representative in Illinois, he has had a front-row seat to the constant corruption sordidly and melodramatically symbolized by former…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: January 15, 2017
Fighting corruption in government is a never-ending task. But it looks like there are certain institutional practices that can help us, year in, year out. Click on over to Townhall for the latest lesson in this ancient wisdom, pried from newspaper headlines. Then come back here for those headlines: Arkansas…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: October 11, 2015
Click on over to Townhall.com for an expanded discussion of Wednesday’s Common Sense. Then come back here for more reading: Hillary Clinton: The Daily Mail Powerline Blog Emanuel Rahm: Chicago Tribune's lawsuit more on the Trib lawsuit Yahoo story on public education corruption ABC News on the Chicago corruption story Chicago Tribune…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: October 3, 2008
Can you be kicked out of the government for serving sautéed shad roe? Prime Minister Samak Sundarave of Thailand has just been ousted by a Thai court for violating the constitution. His crime? Hosting TV cooking shows while in office. Samak was the host of “Tasting, Grumbling,” and “Touring at…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: May 6, 2018
Over at Townhall, the logic of “inclusion” is examined — and the examination includes an explanation for why exclusion is the usual tactic of the inclusionists. Click back here for the back-up. Yelp: Churchill Tavern Fox News Insider: 'Nazi Scum, Get Out': Milo Yiannopoulos Heckled by Crowd, Driven Out of…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: February 18, 2018
After every major school shooting the calls for “doing something serious about guns” burst into the national conversation. And yet... considering how lame most actual proposals are ... what is really the ultimate intention appears to be gun prohibition and confiscation. And the thing about that? It means that only…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: February 19, 2001
Lobbyists can't lobby Maryland Legislators from prison. Not anymore. I'm sorry, but legislators have put their feet down this time. No lobbying from prison, period. We can all sleep better now. Wait a second what? Well, first you have to realize that there's a "culture of corruption created and tolerated…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: April 10, 2014
“In Maxine Waters’ economy,” wrote Timothy Carney yesterday, “big business rows the boat while government steers.” The Democratic Congresswoman, known for championing the poor and the less well-off, just loves throwing money around. Including to the rich. Carney shows that, for all her anti-big biz talk, she’s playing into the…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: November 19, 2008
Senator Ted Stevens is an unrepentant porkster whose close relations and special deals with an Alaska business recently led to a conviction on seven felony counts. But he’s not giving in, and has appealed his conviction. He also ran for a seventh Senate term, and it looks like he’s won…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: July 26, 2015
The results are in. There’s an easy way to constrain political corruption. Click on over to Townhall to find out more. Then come back here for some more reading: US Term Limits: “State Legislative Term Limits” St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Missouri term limits debated” States of Corruption Illinois Townhall.com: “Term Limits,…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: November 13, 2000
Remember Jesse Ventura? Sure you do. A movie star and former wrestler, Ventura captured the governor's seat in Minnesota a couple years back by giving a body slam to politics as usual. Lord knows I don't agree with all the man's opinions, nor all his policies neither. But I do…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: May 2, 2016
Americans concerned with government corruption really should study Italy. Why? “You know Italians,” septuagenarian Elio Ciampanella was quoted in the New York Times last week. “If there is a law, they will try to find ways to go around it!” But it is not just ordinary citizens — the people…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: March 12, 2009
Blagojevich is out! Quinn is in! There is gubernatorial hope for corruption-riddled Illinois. Now, admittedly, I don’t agree with Governor Pat Quinn on every issue. But few governors can boast Quinn’s long record as an anti-establishmentarian reformer. In April of last year, Pat Quinn, then Illinois’s lieutenant governor, was pushing…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: February 10, 2017
Romania’s parliament has confidence in . . . itself. Sorta. A parliamentary no-confidence vote failed, despite 161 lawmakers voting for the resolution and only eight voting with the government. Confused? The no-confidence measure failed because the Social Democrats, controlling nearly two-thirds of the 465 seats in parliament, abstained on the…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: November 21, 2019
One reason to talk about corruption a lot is that there is a lot of corruption to talk about. The scheme was to get Kaiser Permanente to buy 20,000 copies of her children’s book, Healthy Holly, at a decidedly non-discounted price of $5 a pop, while the health provider was…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: May 26, 2014
While running for the Senate, Elizabeth Warren informed Lawrence O’Donnell and his MSNBC audience that she didn’t understand how Congressfolk could keep playing the stock market while in office. She trotted out the notion of stock management via blind trusts. She and O’Donnell understand that members of Congress have apparently…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: January 31, 2019
Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster’s feet there are left the mountains.Robinson Jeffers, “Shine, Perishing Republic” (1939).
Relevance: 46% Posted on: January 5, 2009
The name. The hair. The gall. Illinois Governor Rod Blogojevich is getting lots of attention. However, the governor’s favor-trading is unique only in blatancy. The longer politicians hold power, the more readily they regard pay-to-play corruption as acceptable, profitable. Which is one reason I advocate initiative rights, term limits, mandatory…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: August 29, 2017
Last week, when President Donald Trump abandoned his previous policy position on getting U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in favor of continuing the establishment-supported policy of keeping those troops there, he was very well-received in our nation’s capital. NeverTrumper/neo-con Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) spoke of Mr. Trump’s “smarts” and “moral…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: November 8, 2012
If your candidate or issue didn’t win on Tuesday, then, sure, Western civilization is completely finished, kaput. No doubt. But still, let’s look at the bright side. At least the presidential election provided a $2.5 billion stimulus to the economy, without raising anyone’s taxes (yet) or borrowing a nickel from…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: August 3, 2009
For the millions of people living in New Jersey, who’ve never been arrested on corruption charges, this one’s for you. Recently, the FBI arrested 44 folks there, including two state legislators and three mayors. Big news, I guess, but hardly unusual by Jersey standards. The U.S. Attorney says the state’s…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: November 7, 2011
“Too little, too late.” I am not alone to suspect that the Occupy movement — the 99 percenters — started its protest against corporate greed and government cronyism several years too late. Where were the Occupiers when the Tea Party protests started? Dancing in the streets over the Obama presidency?…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: October 12, 2017
What is corruption? said no jesting Pilate ever. But please, stay for an answer. A week ago, Jimmie Moore pleaded guilty to filing a false campaign finance report in order to conceal a $90,000 payment to drop out of a congressional race. Moore is a former Philadelphia judge (heavens). The…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: July 12, 2011
Not long ago on Townhall.com I briefly told the tale of two journalists, both arrested for taking pictures at a public meeting. This stunk of tyranny, to me. “Government cameras on citizens? Dangerous. Citizen lenses trained on government? Essential safety devices.” What I didn’t mention was that the public meeting…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: July 22, 2015
Common Cause says its job is “Holding Power Accountable.” Robert Reich is the pre-eminent “people’s progressive” propagandist of our time, promoting himself as on the side of underdogs and against corporate power structures. After the Wisconsin John Doe probe was judicially squelched, last week, Reich promoted Common Causes’s official reaction,…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: January 24, 2000
Campaign finance reform is a hot topic. Senator John McCain of Arizona has made it the number one issue in his presidential campaign. When politicians talk about changing a system that so greatly benefits them, well, like most Americans, I'm pretty skeptical. McCain has talked a lot about the corruption…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: April 21, 2024
What did they know and when did they know it? This classic question, derived from Senator Howard Baker and the Watergate brouhaha of the 1970s, continues to echo as we uncover each new scandal. But no one is calling the pandemic debacle as “COVIDgate” or “WuhanGate” or even “FauciGate,” for…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: July 28, 2015
In the 15 states where voters have enacted term limits for their state representatives and senators, those politicians — along with the lobbyists and heads of powerful interests seeking the favor of those politicians — constantly complain that the limits are a big problem. I know they’re right. In fact,…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: December 23, 2014
Some people sighed a big sigh this last week: a few with a grateful, “at long last” sense of relief; others with all the hopefulness that Sisyphus must’ve felt each time he put shoulder to boulder at the bottom of the mountain, and started rolling his fated rock up the…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: February 15, 2018
“Two Baltimore detectives were convicted Monday of robbery and racketeering,” the Washington Post reported, “in a trial that laid bare shocking crimes committed by an elite police unit and surfaced new allegations of widespread corruption in the city’s police department.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise presented the jury with “things…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: February 17, 2011
During the last few weeks of Egyptian unrest, a phrase got bandied about with an unusual degree of assumed support: Term limits. We heard of their importance from The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, and other news sources, some of which would normally pooh-pooh any push to establish,…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: December 8, 2011
It has been alleged that Brazil’s Labor Minister, Carlos Lupi, had demanded kickbacks from “charities and non-governmental organizations in exchange for funding from the ministry.” He has also been accused of receiving both a state and a federal government salary. Such talk has undermined his ability to work for the…
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…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: October 12, 2016
The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war (Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling) that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: October 2, 2017
On October 2, 1789, George Washington sent the proposed Constitutional amendments (the United States’ Constitution’s 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…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: October 2, 2018
On October 2, 1789, George Washington sent the proposed Constitutional amendments (the United States’ Constitution’s 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…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: December 10, 2019
A fundamental error pervading the thinking of nearly all parties, political and social, is that evils admit of immediate and radical remedies. ‘If you will but do this, the mischief will be prevented.’ ‘Adopt my plan and the suffering will disappear.’ ‘The corruption will unquestionably be cured by enforcing this…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: July 30, 2017
A funereal note for a baby in Britain, a death knell for socialized medicine in America? See Townhall, click on over; then come back here. BBC: Charlie Gard parents announce death of 'beautiful boy' CNN: Baby Charlie Gard dies after life support withdrawn Fox News Insider: Nigel Farage: 'I Am…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: July 21, 2012
The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: July 17, 2018
“Term limits,” said Daniel McCarthy, editor of The Modern Age, in a recent podcast conversation with historian Tom Woods, “was one of the dorkiest ideas of the 1994 so-called Newt Gingrich revolution.” He characterized it as not having really gone anywhere. Huh? Granted, Congress is still not term-limited. But Americans…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: November 4, 2016
Before the Brexit vote, the likelihood of British secession from the European Union garnered a mere 25 percent chance. That was according to European betting markets, which are usually more accurate. In June, the Brits voted Brexit. Donald Trump has made much hay of this, understandably. On Tuesday, the odds…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: June 21, 2013
While Americans appear mildly unsettled or perhaps “ticked off” about recent government revelations, elsewhere in the world citizens move from “unease” to “unrest” and outright “protest.” The protests that erupted first in Turkey and now in Brazil and elsewhere are filled with the ranks of the young, not a few…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: October 2, 2020
On October 2, 1789, George Washington sent the proposed Constitutional amendments (the United States’ Constitution’s 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…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: October 2, 2021
On October 2, 1789, George Washington sent the proposed Constitutional amendments (the United States’ Constitution’s 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…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: October 2, 2022
On October 2, 1789, George Washington sent the proposed Constitutional amendments (the United States’ Constitution’s 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…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: October 2, 2023
On October 2, 1789, George Washington sent the proposed Constitutional amendments (the United States’ Constitution’s 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…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: October 2, 2019
On October 2, 1789, George Washington sent the proposed Constitutional amendments (the United States’ Constitution’s 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…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: July 21, 2015
“We’ve been there and done that and voted not to do it,” St. Tammany Parish Council Chairman Richard Tanner explained last week. “I don’t know why we’d do it again.” There’s a lot Tanner doesn’t know. Like that his job is representing the people. You see, Tanner wasn’t one of…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: November 14, 2017
There is a common sense element to economics. We ignore it at our peril. So let’s take a cue from the Democratic Party’s current and de facto leader, Bernie Sanders. Turn to Denmark for a model. The Nordic state has what Bernie wants: higher education “free for all.” But there…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: August 8, 2022
A fundamental error pervading the thinking of nearly all parties, political and social, is that evils admit of immediate and radical remedies. “If you will but do this, the mischief will be prevented.” “Adopt my plan and the suffering will disappear.” “The corruption will unquestionably be cured by enforcing this…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: March 23, 2016
I’ve been tough on Bernie Sanders, the socialist Vermont Senator and Democratic Party presidential candidate. Why? Because socialism is — to quote a current GOP candidate — “a disaster.” But I appreciate his campaign for showing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for what she is, the ultimate establishment insider.…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: February 2, 2018
“Politicians in prison garb,” headlined a recent Sun Sentinel editorial, “shake trust in government.” It was not a fashion statement. “What is it about a long career that makes some politicians — not all, let’s be clear about that — feel the rules don’t apply to them?” asked the paper,…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: December 11, 2018
In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: November 18, 2008
A clear majority of American voters — of all races — voted for Barack Obama. They now celebrate his victory. Me? Not so much. Oh, I like Obama’s talk about there not being red states and blue states, urging that we get past partisanship. I just don’t recall him ever…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: July 30, 2020
Another corrupt, term-limits-hating, careerist politician bites the dust. “Federal prosecutors say Republican Speaker Larry Householder and four others — including a former state GOP chairman — perpetrated a $60 million federal bribery scheme,” reports the Dayton Daily News, “connected to a taxpayer-funded bailout of Ohio’s two nuclear power plants.” Last…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: October 30, 2015
Government is so corrupt that its power to intervene in the market can be bought and sold by the rich... ...Therefore government should be bigger and more powerful. Click here for a large resolution version of this image:
Relevance: 37% Posted on: August 14, 2016
More War, More Cronyism, More Corporate Give-Aways, More CrowdedPrisons, More Taxes, More Regulations, More Drug War, More PoliceMilitarization and Civil Rights Violations, More Assaults on Free Speech, More Economic Bungling, More Debt, More Control, More Corruption.
Relevance: 36% Posted on: May 25, 2017
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: October 21, 2018
Sneaky. Low-down. Poltroons. Click on over to Townhall for this weekend’s highlights reel on how politicians do it, how they sucker-punch the people. Then come back here for the raw footage: Arkansas El Dorado News-Times: Arkansas Supreme Court disqualifies term limits proposal KARK: Mike Huckabee Talks Capitol Corruption, Term Limits…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: May 4, 2014
A recent poll determined that Illinois citizens are the most restive. That is, more of them than citizens of any other state would leave their state, if their situations allowed. Why? The weather? More like the political climate: corruption. But they are doing something about that. Click on over to…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: October 2, 2014
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: 35% Posted on: November 26, 2022
From Blondie to gratitude, with corporate corruption in between: https://soundcloud.com/thisweekincommonsense/one-way-or-another?si=ffc908405fe0461ca9ed0d2fbc202694&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Relevance: 35% Posted on: April 5, 2016
Michigan’s governor just signed a $49 million emergency funding bill passed by the state legislature to keep the Detroit Public Schools open. Open for what? Will any of that dough actually make it to the classroom, where children might possibly be educated? Or, is it merely another opening for graft?…