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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…
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…