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Weekly remarks: Obama on the tough economy; Geoff Davis: 3,833 pages of new healthcare regs already Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 3:07AMThe Democrat says more needs doing to fix the jobs situation; The Republican says spending cuts are necessary to control the deficit.
Tired, poor, huddled masses can get in line Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 7:08AMI have no respect for a country that has no respect for itself. What do you call a country that knows queue-jumping alleged refugees are sailing toward it in a rusty ship and does nothing to stop it?
How e-Government Is Empowering Citizens Worldwide Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 5:55AMSkip the lines, forget about bribes. E-gov gives anyone with a web connection direct access to public services.
OPINION: Cutting defense spending makes sense, but don’t stop there Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 10:11PMThe move is part of an effort to cut $100 billion over five years from the military’s overhead cost. Gates noted that up to 40 percent of the cost of our military is involved in overhead that does not contribute directly to our forces in the field.
Patrol reform Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 9:00PMDuring its first major World War II engagement against German and Italian troops, the U.S. Army did not start well in Tunisia. One of the many changes that turned the course of battle in early 1943 was Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's decision to move his generals closer to the front. Leaders too far back tend not to know what is going on.
Dominic Lawson: Cynics find plutocrats' pledge positively painful Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 3:21PMVerily, it is said, no good deed goes unpunished. The news that a group of the world's richest men, including Microsoft's Bill Gates, have agreed to give at least half of their £150 billion ($329 billion) total fortunes to charity,...
Renowned Batavia surgeon weighs in on health care -- part 2 Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 10:23AMThis entry concludes Sunday's article on the comments of Victor DeSa, M.D., who spoke to senior citizens at Batavia's First United Methodist Church last week. Please remember, this is a summary of DeSa's presentation and does not necessarily reflect the views of The Batavian : Medicare, Medicaid and senior services By requiring insurance companies to expand coverage, the new health care law will ...
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Seeking Hyde Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 10:38PMWhen it comes to the signature legislation of the current Democrat-run Washington, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and her House of Representatives have been about hiding the truth. In contrast, a House run by someone like Rep. John Boehner would be about Hyde - Henry Hyde.
WEB EXTRA -- Additional Q&A with candidates for governor Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 5:47AMWe asked more than we could use for our print edition. Here are additional questions and answers with the seven candidates for Michigan governor.
The Quiet Revolution: Venezuelans Experiment with Participatory Democracy Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 5:28AMby Andrew Kennis Selling goods to passersby on the street, Jenny Caraballo describes her local communal council. "Some of our members are homemakers who want their community to be pretty," Caraballo says while trying to make eye contact with potential clients in 23 de Enero, a barrio popular that is one of many rough areas in Caracas, Venezuela. read more
Ombudsman report on emergency rooms due Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 4:58AMOntario's ombudsman will issue a special report Tuesday on a decision to close hospital emergency rooms.
Dominic Lawson: The sin of the rich is to seem happy Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 4:20PMVerily, it is said, no good deed goes unpunished. In this country, at least, the news that a group of the world's richest men, including Microsoft's Bill Gates, have agreed to give at least half of their £150bn total fortunes to charity, has met with a distinctly cool reaction. "What's in it for them?" seems the common response – or "Beware of geeks bearing gifts", as one headline most wittily ...
Ombudsman to report on ER closures in southwest Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 2:17PMOntario's ombudsman will issue a special report Tuesday on a decision to close hospital emergency rooms, but the Opposition is already vowing to scrap the regional health agencies set up by the government to make such decisions.
This is a Backgrounder On Economic Freedom Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 12:20PMAbstract: Backroom deals between members of the governing class and their hand-picked cronies influence the legislative, executive, and regulatory actions of governments around the world. Examples of this ancient form of corruption abound.
No secret to improving intelligence Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 11:33AMNews flash: Government bureaucracy is inefficient and impenetrable.
Seeking Hyde Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 2:26AMhttp://www.JewishWorldReview.com | When it comes to the signature legislation of the current Democrat-run Washington, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and her House of Representatives have been about hiding the truth. In contrast, a House run by someone like Rep. John Boehner would be about Hyde--Henry Hyde.
An unhealthy blend of evasion, half-truths and spin Sunday, August 8, 2010 @ 6:52AMOn the ABC's 7.30 Report last Tuesday, the following exchange took place between the program's presenter, Kerry O'Brien, and the Prime Minister: O'Brien: ''You said you had built a real and genuine friendship with [Kevin Rudd] over the time you've worked together. Now he went to hospital for a gall bladder operation … Why wouldn't you lift the phone … to wish him well?''
Brady's chart ridicules Democrats' health overhaul Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:06AMGOP members of Joint House-Senate Economic Committee A Houston-area Republican is leading an effort by Republicans in the House and Senate to attack the health care overhaul adopted by the Democratic Congress and signed into law by President Obama....
Little Napoleons behind religious clubs episode Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 9:54PMAs a Muslim, I am dismayed that this issue of non-Muslim school clubs has arisen. It is incidents like these that fuel the negative perception that some quarters have with Muslims. By Farah Fahmy (The Malaysian Insider)
Little Napoleons behind religious clubs episode Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 9:32PMAs a Muslim, I am dismayed that this issue of non-Muslim school clubs has arisen. It is incidents like these that fuel the negative perception that some quarters have with Muslims. By Farah Fahmy (The Malaysian Insider) We pride ourselves in being a multiracial and multireligious country. Yet we don’t always appear to believe in what we preach. What is the harm in having non-Muslim clubs in ...
Presidential power, national security, and "Top Secret America" Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 4:06PMThe Washington Post's "Top Secret America" series is just fine, but we need to spread the blame
Financial reform and America's march to Marxism Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 7:42AMMarxism marches on
The new progressive era: technocrats and bureaucrats take control Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 5:18PMWhen historians look back on the period between 2001 and 2011, writes columnist David Brooks, they will be amazed that a nation that professed to hate bureaucracy produced so much of it.
Bureaucrats catch the bully bug from anti-test teachers Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 12:29PMEve and Katsuya left Sydney at 7.30am and drove home, arriving at 12.30pm. Eve drove for the first two hours at an average speed of 60km/h. Katsuya drove the rest of the way, averaging 90km/h. What was the average speed of the whole journey? a) 67km/h; b) 75km/h; c) 78km/h; d) 84km/h.*
Spewing smoke over the financial reform bill Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 1:41AMDemocrats, Republicans trade barbs over the gargantuan bill, which reflects a legislative process so complex that coherency is lost
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Financial overhaul bill goes to Obama Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 6:47PMThe Senate voted 60-39 on Thursday to approve the most sweeping overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory system since the Great Depression, clearing the historic legislation for President Obama to sign into law.
The Spies Who Loved Us Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 10:04PMThe good news is that someone still wants to spy on us. The bad news is that it’s the Russians.
This is a First Principles Series Report On Political Thought Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 1:21PMAbstract: Today, those who defend free markets and capitalism often do so solely on managerial or technical grounds, but economic liberty needs a moral defense as well. Defense of economic liberty without reference to morality will ultimately prove injurious to liberty itself.
Valentine's Pack Traces Real Drug War Monday, July 12, 2010 @ 8:01AMRelentless is the pack in search of prey, relentless are the wolves. Meticulous is the disclosure of truth about the real“war on drugs,” as chronicled by Douglas Valentine in The Strength of the Pack (“PACK”).
Income tax first cab off Abbott's rank Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 7:00AMTONY Abbott has zeroed in on income tax reform and the sidelining of state bureaucracies from the delivery of health and education.
Why Europe Needs Marriage Counseling Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 1:13AMEuropean countries came together and formed a union, vowing to stay together for richer or for poorer. Now, countries need to stop being so self-centered and make some sacrifices to the relationship
Why Europe needs marriage counseling Wednesday, July 7, 2010 @ 8:53PMOne issue I keep beating on in my posts about Europe's debt crisis is the need for collective action to resolve the region's problems. The independent nations of Europe have gotten into bed together, with the common market as the blanket and the euro as the wedding ring, and they have to start behaving that [...]
Top NY state bureaucrats earn nearly $128,000/year Saturday, July 3, 2010 @ 2:09AMAlmost 5,000 bureaucrats who work for New York public authorities earned an average of $127,915 (S$178,160) in 2009, according to the first report by an agency created to safeguard the public interest.
Letters: So, Dr. Chuck Williams, where do we Americans go from here? Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 5:04PMI'D LIKE to thank op-ed writer Dr. Chuck Williams for sharing his opinion that the Democratic and Republican parties are both lacking. We must be close in age. I missed the '92 election by a few months but followed things closely. I, too, would've voted Democratic.
Seven Questions....with Yours Truly [A Blog Around The Clock] Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 8:38AMLast week, my SciBling Jason Goldman interviewed me for his blog. The questions were not so much about blogging, journalism, Open Access and PLoS (except a little bit at the end) but more about science - how I got into it, what are my grad school experiences, what I think about doing research on animals, and such stuff. Jason posted the interview here, on his blog, on Friday , and he also let me ...
Pentagon Cuts Likely To Include Contractors' Profits Wednesday, June 30, 2010 @ 11:30AMIn targeting overhead costs, the Defense Department is bound to cut into defense contractors' margin
Hackers revisited Wednesday, June 30, 2010 @ 6:31AMWired magazine's Steven Levy says the 'Hackers' of the late 20th century set the philosophical base for the digital information age of today -- and he says their mind-set will shape our future.
The myth of command and control Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 1:07PMThe disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, which has cost lives and livelihoods and threatens to permanently damage the ecosystem, also provides considerable information about the vulnerability of large organizations.
What is IBM's Watson? Monday, June 21, 2010 @ 3:52AM"Toured the Burj in this UAE city. They say it's the tallest tower in the world; looked over the ledge and lost my lunch." This is the quintessential sort of clue you hear on the TV game show "Jeopardy!"
Lawmakers ponder ABC system change Wednesday, June 16, 2010 @ 11:20PMThe proposed modernization of North Carolina’s alcoholic-beverage control system could be enough to give one a sore head, depending on one’s perspective.
Noreen/mj Monday, June 14, 2010 @ 8:17PMPublic servants who generate solutions that lead to measurable savings will be rewarded up to $10,000
Michael Tomasky: On federal agencies Saturday, June 12, 2010 @ 3:36AMOn the Lincoln thread below , I see that an expected skirmish has broken out between conservatives who say government agencies (especially under Obama) want to dictate what we can watch and read and believe and so forth, and liberals trying to argue this down. I don't know who I'll convince with this post, but I just want to write in support of your average bureaucrat, who works hard for not ...
From one couple's strength, New Chenega rises Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 11:22PMIn the third of five excepts from “The Fate of Nature ” by Charles Wohlforth, the story of Larry and Gail Evanoff continues as they seek to rebuild the village of Chenega, which was destroyed in the great earthquake of 1964.
Schools the pawns in a grand plan Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 10:10AMThe Rudd government's building program is about providing economic stimulus, not improving education, and it shows.
Thomas Sowell: The real public service Tuesday, June 1, 2010 @ 7:21PMEvery year about this time, big-government liberals stand up in front of college commencement crowds across the country and urge the graduates to do the noblest thing possible— become big-government liberals.
N.S. bureaucrats never really wanted cancelled problem gambling study: author Wednesday, May 26, 2010 @ 1:06PMA consultant who was fired by the Nova Scotia government as he worked on a gambling study says he believes a committee of bureaucrats killed his report because he was focusing too much on addictions to video lottery terminals.
SGT. SHAFT: Verifying what caused PTSD Wednesday, May 26, 2010 @ 4:14AMDear Sgt. Shaft. My husband has been diagnosed with PTSD, but the VA won't process his claim until he can find someone from his company that can verify the incident that caused his illness. I have tried almost everything to find these people but no luck the VA says he ...
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: May 26 Tuesday, May 25, 2010 @ 9:14PMTroy community affairs department should be cut
Gulf States: Opacity blights outlook for economy Monday, May 17, 2010 @ 6:58AMSubject: Transparency deficits in Gulf public and private sectors. Significance: In terms of fiscal resources and the government's role in the economy, the Gulf monarchies have been better equipped to ride out the crisis than most other developed economies.