Showing posts with label bureaucracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bureaucracy. Show all posts
Chris Edwards: Why The Federal Government Fails
The 5 structural reasons. Most Americans think that the federal government is incompetent and wasteful. Their negative view is not surprising given the steady stream of scandals emanating from Washington. Scholarly studies support the idea that many federal activities are misguided and harmful. A recent book on federal performance ... MOREBrian Doherty: Environmental Protection Agency Dumps A Million Gallons Of Orange Mine Waste Into A Colorado River
Pollution is fine, as long as government does it. Disturbing news of a real make-work program from the Environmental Protection Agency, reported by Associated Press via Huffington Post: A million-gallon mine waste spill that sent a plume of orange-ish muck down a river in southwest Colorado on Thursday was caused by a federal mine ... MOREKatie Lapotin: Recovered E-Mails Reveal Lois Lerner's Contempt For Conservative And Tea Party Organizations
She labels them “crazies” and “a–holes”. According to a bipartisan report
released earlier this week by the Senate Finance Committee, emails sent
by Lois Lerner during her time at the Internal Revenue Service show
that she was deeply committed to the Democratic Party and had a strong
dislike for conservative, Tea Party ... MOREReg-Crazed Bureaucrats Continue War On Common Sense
by Thomas Novelly. Indian restaurant fined for wanting ‘experienced Indian waiter.’ The New York City Commission on Human Rights issued a $5,000 fine to an Indian restaurant for hiring an Indian waiter, the New York Post reported Wednesday. Shalom Bombay in Midtown Manhattan posted an ad in October of 2013 on
Craigslist, asking for an ... MOREIs Politics Obsolete? How People Outpace Politicians
by Max Borders and Jeffery A. Tucker. Hillary Clinton talks of cracking down on the gig economy. Donald Trump speaks of telling American corporations where they can and can’t do business abroad. Bernie Sanders says we have too many deodorant choices. They all speak about immigrants as if it were 1863. What the heck are these ... MOREEPA Power Grab Incites States To Consider Nullification
by Kyle Maichle. Resisting a claim to every last drop of water in the nation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has in recent years imposed numerous new regulatory rules strangling the freedoms of businesses and property owners. Latching on to every possible excuse for regulating economic activities by citing microscopic effects on ... MOREMichael Accad: While Medical Bureaucrats Continue To Proliferate, Doctors And Nurses Are Becoming More Scarce
The dynamics of government health care. In contrast to the expected shortage of tens of thousands of physicians, there appears to be an abundance of health care administrators. Economists and physician-activists at Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) have invoked the below graph and the administrative bloat it shows as ... MOREGov't Spent $3.5 Million To Study Why Lesbians Are So Fat
by Elizabeth Harrington. The dreaded low self-esteem rears its ugly head. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now spent over $3.5 million to determine why the majority of lesbians are obese. The project, now entering its fifth year, received another grant worth $658,485 this summer. The total funding for the research is now $3,531,925. ... MORESo-Called Public Servants Won't Take No For An Answer
Ah, the census worker. An East Dallas woman is outraged after she claims one U.S. Census worker showed up at her door for a housing survey and would not take “no” for an answer. Sonia Platz said the worker went as far as to camp out in her yard as she waited for Platz to change her mind. “She’s ringing the bell, knocking on the door. And I’m like, ... MOREDavid Hansnyi: The Trans Fat Ban Is Worse Than You Think
Why stop there? The Food and Drug Administration issued a final decision this week,
giving the food industry three years to phase out bad trans fats, still
used in a wide variety of products, such as Pillsbury's Ready To Bake
cookies and cake frosting. Now, if you're ingesting large quantities of
either, perhaps partially hydrogenated oils aren't your biggest ... MOREGovernment Closes Down Unlicensed Licensed Lemonade Stand To Save Customers From Unregulated Cold Drinks
by Scott Shackford. Moppets meet the government boot. Technically summer doesn't begin for another couple of weeks, but southern states like Texas don't care when summer is technically supposed to start. It's warm down there, and two young sisters in Overton with the adorable, media-friendly names of Andria and Zoey Green (8 and 7 years old, ... MOREMD Criticisms Of ObamaCare Silenced By ACA Bureaucrats
by Drs. Gerard J Gianoli and Joel L. Strom. Don't expect your doctor to stand up and protest about how the Affordable Care Act is responsible for so many of the health care problems that patients face today. As a physician and a dentist in private practice, we have spent the past five years making the case that the ACA is harming our ... MOREInnovation Vs Intervention In Health Care
by Veronique de Rugy. How can we produce better health for more people at a lower cost, year
after year? By lifting all the rules and barriers that prevent health
care innovators from bringing new lifesaving products to consumers and
force doctors to beg bureaucrats and insurance administrators for
permission to save lives. For years, free market ... MOREMontana Man Saves Baby Moose, Calls Park Service For Help; Only To See Agents Come And Kill The Little Fella
by Michael E Miller. For Josh Hohm, Memorial Day began with all of the magic of a Disney movie, featuring a new animal friend and an unexpected adventure. Thanks to some Montana park rangers, however, it ended up a snuff film. Hohm decided to spend the holiday at the West Boulder Campground in the Gallatin National Forest — near ... MORE
California Aims to Regulate Your Dirtiest Fantasies
by Josh Gucket. Big Brother is watching you; he says to stop before you go blind. Following five years of procedural hurdles, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has proposed a set of safety standards outlining how adult film performers and others on set can operate in their jobs more safely. Among 21 pages of proposals,
it emphasizes ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The Government Is On The Warpath
Time for ‘We the People’ to circle the wagons. In an age of overcriminalization, government officials are constantly telling Americans what not to do. Yet it used to be “we the people” telling the government what it could and could not do. Indeed, the three words used most frequently throughout the Bill of Rights in regards to the ... MORE
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