Whatever Happened to Integrity?
We don’t hear much in today’s popular discourse about integrity. That’s too bad: integrity is an important matter in a republic with democratic institutions. The …
Toxic Relationship
This summer, the mainstream media spent much time and energy discussing the case of Shirley Sherrod, an Obama appointee in the Department of Agriculture (USDA) …
Darwin Waits
As we’re going to press for this issue, there’s a lively debate among economists about whether the United States is more likely to face deflation …
He Gets His
Jerry Brown is seeking restoration to his throne in California. He’s always counted on the loyalty of government-employee unions. And reciprocated. A new term as …
Leading the Blind
Thomas E. Perez is the statist hack who heads the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. According to the DOJ’s website (employing no sense of …
Weenies Run Amok
Some commentators have moaned that the public exposure of Journolist (a listserv group of snotty leftwing reporters, news producers, and other weenies) deals a mortal …
Bureaucratic Undead
The financial reform bill that Congress passed into law this summer was Christmas in July for statist hacks. Three noxious examples: 1. The “reform” creates …
Eye of the Beholder
Recently I came across the MSNBC.com headline “ ‘Double Dippers’ could enable what they fear.” Aha, I thought, this truculent news website is finally tackling …
Shock Tactics
A few months ago, the northern New Jersey suburbs experienced a distinctive episode of teenagers flirting with antisocial behavior. First, a 16-year-old boy hijacked a …
Bottom Feeders
In the weeks leading up to passage of the statist self-aggrandizement imprecisely called “financial reform,” the Obama Administration’s Big Labor masters concocted an anachronistic public …