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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: 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: 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: 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?…