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“The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful." —Jeffrey Tucker James Howard Kunstler Feb 24, 2025 CBS’s 60-Minutes show was at it again Sunday night in the most prime primetime weekend news slot on the old broadcast spectrum — Sunday at 7:00, the power-hour of national mind-fu**ery — with blob PR-agent Scott Pelley singing the blues over the systematic disassembly of the rogue bureaucracy. Trouble is, fewer and fewer minds are susceptible to the argument that the blob exists to “save our democracy.”...

Federal rules and regulations, the swamp’s tax on U.S. companies and citizens, have surged over 45% under President Joe Biden. A new tally from the regulation czar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Wayne Crews, showed that Biden’s team has issued 4,429 rules, a 45.8% jump in paperwork over former President Donald Trump’s final year. The price impact is unclear, he said, though likely much higher than it was under Trump, who sometimes used new rules to kill off Obama-era regulations. Crews has spent a career sniffing out federal regulations and calculating the impact they have. In a new posting shared...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- More than two years into his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI has proven to be a very patient decision-maker -- so patient that even some of his Vatican bureaucrats are chafing a little. "There are all these decisions that you thought were already made, and then nothing happens," one Roman Curia official said in early June. The examples abound: -- The pope's letter to Chinese Catholics, announced in January, has yet to appear. -- The papal document widening use of the Tridentine Mass, reportedly ready since last fall, is still awaiting publication. -- A consistory to name...

The May employment report, with a headline jobs-growth figure of 75,000, at best drew mixed reactions from Wall Street and the financial press. Deeper within the data, however, an important and positive development deserves to be noted: Total federal government employment under President George W. Bush continues to decline. Since Bush took office in January 2001, government jobs have dropped by 51,000 — nearly 2 percent. That may not look like much, but it is a continuation of a trend that represents a small victory for fiscal conservatives and economic libertarians — those who support limited government and the philosophical...

<p>At the rate things are going, it won't be long before the term "veteran doctor" becomes an oxymoron, judging from a report by the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. And if that happens, we'll have only ourselves — actually, our government — to blame.</p>

Sovereignty for the Rest of Us... by: Lewis J. Goldberg One can find much material, on the internet and other sources, espousing the idea that Americans, by law, were intended to be 'sovereign' people, and go to great lengths of research - deep in the United States Code and in Supreme Court case records - to prove the point. Reading but only one or two pieces on the topic inspires the thinking man to question "just what is it that we, as a people, have lost and how do we get it back?" While to most of us, the idea...