Under the Government’s Wing
A blurb in a recent edition of National Review’s The Week offers a necessary reminder of an issue that shouldn’t slip out of public view: Having seized for itself, with the help of the courts, the authority to regulate greenhouse gases without the consent of Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama has aggressively proceeded…
… a one year waiver but how easy will it be to simply grant an extension after the first year … and after the second … and so on? (Kind of like Gina Raimondo and the one year moratorium she issued on her tax returns.) These waivers [H/T Fred Thompson Show] raise, first of all,…
It’s not a new program, and I know I’ve read about it before without finding reason for objection, but, somehow, I’m seeing this sort of thing in a new light, recently: Foreclosures are leading to home-buying deals — half off the appraised value — as the federal government sells houses it has repossessed. For people…
The latest National Review offers a brief reminder to stock up on incandescent light bulbs: … the nation’s last major incandescent-light-bulb factory, in Winchester, Va., has shut down, a victim of the enforced switch to more efficient twisted fluorescent bulbs. It’s bad enough that Congress is telling Americans what to light their houses with, but…
Not surprisingly, politicians are strongly bipartisan in protecting their own unique ability to engage in insider trading: A few lawmakers proposed a bill that would prevent members and employees of Congress from trading securities based on nonpublic information they obtain. The legislation has languished since 2006. “Congressional staff are often privy to inside information, and…
Stephen Spruiell describes the “atypical” way in which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has handled ShoreBank, a Chicago-founded bank with a leftist lending bent. Apparently, “the FDIC relieved ShoreBank of its most toxic assets but left largely intact its management team — a highly unusual move” — and is not requiring an adjustment of…
After a brief lesson in economics — which is most likely to be ignored by those most in need of heeding it — Kevin Williamson notes that the tweaks and adjustments that central planners make to running systems are not light in their effects: … It’s easy to say: Well, we’ll just raise the retirement…
My first thought, upon reading about Butler Hospital’s attempts to gain government approval for a 26-bed addition for psychiatric patients was, “Must everything be a controversy?” Unfortunately, the more government involves itself in every corner of American society, the more the answer becomes, “yes.” Psychiatric hospitals around the country have also been expanding, and about…
During his just-ended Dem primary campaign, Anthony Gemma darkly warned that, bad as his attack informational ads were, the GOP had even worse goods on David Cicilline. It will be interesting to see over the next seven weeks whether this hypothesized dossier pertaining to the newly chosen Dem congressional candidate materializes. Meanwhile, the unaffiliated mayor…