March 1, 2013

How Bad is the Sequester?

From the sound of the legacy media the sequester is very bad and dangerous. Wailing and gnashing of teeth permeates the news coverage as Politicians predict the end of the world. But what is the truth? One truth is that 46% of Federal spending is mon...

February 22, 2013

The Feds Want Your Retirement Accounts

Quietly, behind the scenes, the groundwork is being laid for federal government confiscation of tax-deferred retirement accounts such as IRAs. Slowly, the cat is being let out of the bag. Last January 18th, in a little noticed interview of Richard Co...

February 6, 2013

Unconstitutional Recess Appointments Extend beyond NLRB

On Jan. 4, 2012, while the Senate was in pro-forma session, President Obama announced that he had the power to declare the Senate in recess.  He then made three "recess appointments" to the NLRB and appointed Richard Cordray to head the Consumer...

April 21, 2011

FCC Expands Internet Takeover, Adds Bailouts and Price Controls

While the House of Representatives was debating HJ-37, a resolution to return internet policy decisions to Congress, the FCC was implementing the next phase of its regulatory imposition upon the internet.  That latest FCC move extends internet r...

April 12, 2011

FCC Internet Regulation: Not So Fast

In the House, HJ37, the resolution to disapprove the FCC action, has been approved on a floor vote of: 238 to 174.  Last December, under cover of the holidays and the spectacle of the lame duck Congress, the Federal Communications Commission (FC...

June 25, 2010

Bungling the Gulf Spill Response

As an emergency services planner and responder during the Mount St. Helens eruption, I find the federal oil spill response alarming when not amusing. The best assessment I can make is of federal resources flailing about randomly with no apparent purp...