Insurrection: Dead Bureaucracies Engaged in Zombie Regulating
President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been systematically exposing MASSIVE government waste, fraud and abuse.
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Responsibility and Accountability Part 3: The Bureaucracy and Accountability
This is Part 3 of a series on accountability and responsibility. As the graphic shows, the two should work together, but can but can get jammed.
The Art of Government Employment: A Guide to Doing as Little as Possible
If you’re tired of toiling away in a cubicle, it’s time to embrace the art of government employment – doing as little as possible while maximizing your long-term income.
The Administrative Procedure Act: Unraveling Constitutional Concerns
The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) of 1946 is often hailed as a landmark legislation that sought to bring order and transparency to the federal administrative process. However, beneath the veneer of good intentions lie deep-seated constitutional violations that cast a shadow over the legitimacy of the APA and the regulatory state it has spawned. This …
Deterrence and the Interagency Process, Part 2: Interagency
Deterrence and the Interagency Process, Part 2: Interagency “The evolution of the interagency process parallels Americas [sic] purposeful adaptation to changing global realities of the last five decades. But it is not an orderly evolution because of serious structural and cultural impediments, such as discontinuities from one administration to another and poor institutional memory.” Gabriel …
Deterrence and the Interagency Process, Part 1: Deterrence
Deterrence and the Interagency Process, Part 1: Deterrence I came across an interesting article on LinkedIn on deterrence and how the military should be in control of it. I started a comment and midway through; I opened another browser tab to a quick search. When I got back to LinkedIn, my comments and the original …
Is Social Justice the Liberal Equivalent of Rent-Seeking Behavior?
The term rent-seeking is a derogatory term that implies companies and people seek to take more than they earn. It hearkens to some Marxist ideology as well. But, especially when combined with regulatory capture and bureaucratic corruption, is a valid concept. But what happens when the shoe is on the other foot and people and …
Defending the Republic, Policy Domination
Defending the Republic: Scenario 2 Policy Domination Defending the Republic, Part 1: Introduction provided a general introduction and an initial listing and description of the scenarios. The second part looked at the three variants of the Regulatory Capture scenario. Both asked why corporations are enacting social justice programs. The two blogs suggested that at …
Minarchy and the Right to Choose
Government goons , almost always look at “right to choose” to mean “You have the right to choose as long as we approve of your choices.”
The Rise of American Bureaucracy
The Mad Scientists in the federal government created an unelected and largely unaccountable 4th branch of government. Path dependency keeps us locked into this approach and will require a significant punctured equilibrium to change.
Equity, Newspeak and the AMA
Using a fictional vignette, Jim Dillon I shows how the AMA’s guide for “Advancing Health Equity” might shape a physician-patient interview.