by | Dec 16, 2024

“Ridiculous.” So correctly pronounced President-elect Donald Trump’s assessment of all those stay-at-home office workers driven from their daily routine — and the routine of any ordinary office — by the COVID pandemic. The Washington Times reports: President-elect Donald Trump on Monday vowed…

by and | Dec 12, 2024

Trump’s cabinet picks — from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard — continue to be criticized and scrutinized by politicians and the media. (READ MORE: The Borking of Pete Hegseth)  In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, Melissa…

by | Nov 30, 2024

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leaders of President-elect Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have announced ambitious goals for cutting unnecessary government regulations, an effort in “retrospective review” that is long-overdue.   Our current federal governmental structure is devoted almost…

by | Sep 4, 2024

In a recent 9–7 ruling in Consumers Research v. FCC, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that allowing a private company to manage the funding for a $9 billion government program violates Article I of the Constitution. This case highlights a…

by | Aug 8, 2024

“If the law is on your side, argue the law. If the law isn’t on your side, argue the facts. If neither the law nor the facts are on your side, yell loud and bang on the table,” goes an…

by | Jun 4, 2024

There’s a sarcastic if not morbid joke within the ranks of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation about the meaning of its acronym, FDIC, as it pertains to the numerous “lifers” who have been employed at the FDIC for decades: “Found…

by | May 31, 2024

Several Catholic organizations, including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last week after the commission included abortion in its implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). …

by | May 29, 2024

SACFRAMENTO — Oklahoma Gov. J. Kevin Stitt is taking expected political heat for his courageous decision last week to veto Senate Bill 102, which would have boosted pensions for the state’s police officers to the “3 percent at 50” retirement formula…

by | May 1, 2024

American federalism is struggling. Federal rules are an overwhelming presence in every state government, and some states, due to their size or other leverage, can impose their own policies on much or all of the country. The problem has been…

by | Jan 17, 2024

SACRAMENTO — One of my favorite Soviet-era jokes involved a man who was admiring a shiny American car on a Moscow street. Another man approached and also admired it. The first man said: “What a beautiful Russian car. What magnificent,…

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