Olympic Gold in Shooting? Sorry, Your Eyesight Isn’t Navy Material
You can outshoot practically anyone on the planet, but if you squint a little while reading an eye chart, the Navy’s medical team suddenly thinks you’re a liability.
bureacracy
The Bureaucrats Who Would Be Kings: Why Unelected Officials Have More Power Than Your Senator
Welcome to modern America, where unelected bureaucrats wield more power than the people you actually voted for.
Government Swamp Problem-Solving: The Art of Backward Thinking
Government problem-solving is a peculiar art, perfected over decades by professional bureaucrats and fueled by one golden rule: always cover your butt.
Have No Fear, “Big Brother” Is On Duty
What does it mean when an essential employee (like a President or cabinet secretary) stops doing his essential work for days on end, and nobody notices?
Real Reform, Part 3: The Bureaucratic Cat Burglar
Real Reform, Part 3: The Bureaucratic Cat Burglar Greenman HouseThe cat burglar creeps quietly into his target after doing extensive surveillance and steals the planned target. If the burglar does the job well, there is no evidence of a theft and it may not be detected for weeks or even months, depending on the target. …
Real Reform, Part 1: Introduction
Real Reform, Part 1 Introduction In A New Contract With America, I included a bullet point about qualifications for congressional committee and subcommittee chairs: “Enact congressional policies to require minimum qualifications for committee and subcommittee chairperson positions. These qualifications will be like qualifications required for similar positions in the private sector or the executive branch. …
Lavrentiy Beria: Sadistic, Bloodthirsty Bureaucrat
Lavrenti Beria is a historical reminder of the false security and inevitable fate of an enmeshed bureaucrat.
Creating the Monster: The American Bureaucracy
Creating the Monster: The American Bureaucracy Source: http://www.fernbyfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/photo-frankenstein-1931-2.jpg “The path toward the creation of the modern American state was not linear as some would suspect, but neither was it merely thrown off course by the Progressives in the early twentieth century. It began in the Founding era itself.” “The most powerful and lasting legacy of …
Federal Bureaucracies are Unstable and Unsustainable
When a government bureaucracy is created to solve a problem, it will inevitably become a bigger problem than it was created to solve.