Bureaucracy
December 12, 2025 — Bill Glahn
What fraud? From a Tim Walz press release, Governor Tim Walz today announced that Tim O’Malley will join the state as Director of Program Integrity. A judge, former superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), former FBI agent, and reformer in the archdiocese, O’Malley will work across state government to strengthen fraud prevention and protect taxpayer dollars. Writing as a former energy czar for the State of Minnesota, I
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August 14, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Left’s “resistance” to democracy comes in considerable part from government bureaucrats. Usually that resistance takes the form of undermining the implementation of conservative policies. But sometimes bureaucrats get carried away with their anti-Trump fervor. Take the case of Sean Charles Dunn, who was outraged by the administration’s effort to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C. Dunn screamed at an FBI agent on the street, and finally threw a
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August 5, 2025 — John Hinderaker
When President Trump fired the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, most people considered it an instance of Trump’s petulance. This is how Trump himself explained it: In 2024, it was believed by many people–including me–that the BLS was trying to help first Joe Biden, then Kamala Harris, by releasing good jobs numbers, which would get a lot of publicity, and then quietly revising them downward when
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March 9, 2025 — John Hinderaker
It is a truism of polling that the answer you get depends on the question you ask. This is why, for example Democrats are always rattling on about “MAGA”–MAGA polls poorly. On the other hand, what happens if you ask voters about draining the swamp? Rasmussen asked: “Do you agree or disagree with the following statement – ‘It’s time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.’?” President Donald Trump’s repeated
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February 23, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Government workers are generally overpaid. Economists have analyzed the job duties and compensation of workers in the private and public sectors, and the results have been consistent: government workers are paid one and one half to two times as much for the same roles as private sector workers. That, despite the fact that they also enjoy more job security. So, less risk and more reward. That makes sense only if
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February 20, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Project Veritas is back, albeit without its founder. In this video, a mid-level Department of Education employee says that DOGE has invaded his department. He describes how the Department of Education fools Congress by aiding illegal immigrants; how Department employees keep secrets from DOGE by using an off-the-books app; and how Department employees will welcome being put on leave by DOGE because it means time at the beach at taxpayer
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February 19, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday President Trump signed what could prove to be his most important executive order to date. The order addresses the so-called “independent agencies” of the Executive Branch–the SEC, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, and so on. The purpose of the order is to bring these agencies under presidential control. It begins: Section 1. Policy and Purpose. The Constitution vests all executive power
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January 9, 2025 — Steven Hayward
• Having grown up in the LA area, I’ve seen a lot of big fires (sometimes up fairly close) along with our legendary earthquakes, but nothing like this. Although I live 200 miles north these days, many of the places seen on TV are very familiar to me. I used to run every weekend in Eaton Canyon and up the Mount Wilson fire road, and I can recall seeing the
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October 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
President Trump is proposing to put Elon Musk in charge of improving government efficiency, perhaps the most Herculean task ever undertaken by anyone. But Elon may be up to it, based on his own encounters with government regulators. Here, he hilariously recounts his efforts to convince federal regulators that the risk of his rocket landing on a shark or a whale, upon re-entry, is not a serious one: This story
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June 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Remember the good old days when it was possible to talk about “public servants” with a straight face? In 1958, liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote a book titled The Affluent Society, in which he contrasted America’s fabulously wealthy private sector with its alleged poor relation, the public sector. Galbraith was probably wrong, even then–he was wrong about nearly everything–but in the decades that have since gone by, the idea
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March 31, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
I want to speak briefly about the terrible incident and accident that happened in Baltimore this morning. At about 1:30, a container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which I’ve been over many, many times commuting from the state of Delaware either on a train or by car. I’ve been to Baltimore Harbor many times. And the bridge collapsed, sending several people and vehicles into the water — into the
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May 10, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Pretty much everyone has figured out that the Department of Justice, the CIA and the FBI are run by partisan hacks who cannot be trusted. But what about the colorless, worker bee federal agencies that just turn out data? Like, say, the Bureau of Labor Statistics? Have they been corrupted by the Democrats, too? ZeroHedge has been covering the Biden Department of Labor’s press releases on payroll jobs. For an
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December 29, 2022 — John Hinderaker
The Centers for Disease Control is one of a number of formerly-respected federal agencies that now have fallen into disrepute. CDC has become a tool of the Left in general, and the Democratic Party in particular, and it seems that the people who run the Centers are more interested in political activism than in disease control. Thus CDC’s latest initiative: a self-assessment tool for “LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools.” (Via Breitbart.)
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December 20, 2022 — John Hinderaker
Joe Biden’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that over a million jobs were created in the second quarter, a heartening statistic that no doubt helped the Democrats in November. But now, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve says that those million jobs were almost entirely fictitious: The Biden administration vastly overstated its estimate that employers created more than 1 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, claiming historic job growth
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May 29, 2022 — John Hinderaker
The infant formula shortage is a crisis for many American families, and the end is not in sight. What caused supplies of a staple product to run out? The most thorough explanation I have seen comes from Scott Lincicome of the Cato Institute. (Numerous links in the original are omitted here.) Lincicome fingers government as the culprit, with protectionism as villain number one: U.S. policy has exacerbated the nation’s infant
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March 8, 2022 — John Hinderaker
That is an evergreen headline; here is today’s instance. The Environmental Protection Agency has banned the use of the herbicide Enlist Duo in six Minnesota farm counties. Why? The chemicals in Enlist Duo are apparently harmful to the eastern massasauga rattlesnake. Only problem: there are no eastern massasauga rattlesnakes in those counties, and never have been. My colleague Tom Steward reports: The Environmental Protection Agency’s latest overreach in enforcing the
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February 23, 2022 — John Hinderaker
The Centers for Disease Control is a federal bureaucracy and, like all government agencies, is political. CDC employs scientists, but the idea that it is some sort of ivory tower representing “science” is ridiculous. We are reminded of this fact by an article in the New York Times that Steve referred to briefly earlier today. The article is headlined, “The C.D.C. isn’t publishing large portions of the Covid data it
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