Commentary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in interviews never fails to bring up the problem of regulatory capture. He calls this merger of enterprise and government a kind of corporatism. That’s the older word for the ideology later called fascism. It is the correct label. He is to be commended for raising the problem, which is…

Commentary As attorney general of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey has been a scourge of the administrative state, combatting what he perceives to be federal government overreach into the life and commerce of the Mountaineer State. On April 4, Morrisey announced that he is joining a crowded field seeking the Republican nomination in West Virginia’s 2024 gubernatorial race….

Commentary Once upon a time I worked for the federal government as a postdoctoral researcher at a CDC branch that focuses on occupational safety and health. While I was there, I learned firsthand that the government operated at a level that was grossly inefficient and mind-numbingly bureaucratic. The longer I was there and the more…

Commentary FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative leaders and former political appointees has compiled a game plan for the next conservative president to restructure the federal government’s bureaucracy to make it more cost effective, high-performing, and accountable to the people. “The great challenge confronting a conservative president is the existential need for aggressive…

Commentary Every schoolkid knows—or used to know—that the United States has three branches of government. At least that’s what the textbooks say. But really, we have four branches of government. That’s because Congress—the legislative branch—has for decades delegated lawmaking authority to the unconstitutional fourth branch of the U.S. government: independent regulatory agencies. By some estimates,…

During an April 1 appearance in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced the weaponization of the federal bureaucracy and called for a president to “clean house” of federal bureaucrats. Since retaking the House, Republicans have mounted investigations into the ways that the federal law enforcement apparatus has allegedly been weaponized against political enemies. Speaking…

Commentary This is one of the greatest federal government scandals of all time. Many hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been getting a full-time paycheck from Uncle Sam (meaning from all of us) without showing up for work for three years now. They don’t call it Club Fed for nothing. To be fair, just…

Veteran politician Preston Manning has released a new book, “The Redtape Letters,” a satirical collection of fictional letters as imagined written between politicians and government bureaucrats that are based on Manning’s own experiences in government. The 10 letters are written between Redtape, leader of the Bureaucratic Party of Canada, and his fictional 325,000-member strong party,…

Payroll for federal employees is expected to surpass $55 billion this year, according to a report by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO). Published on Nov. 18, the report, titled “Supplementary Estimates (B),” says hiring of public servants has been on the rise in the past seven years. “Government spending on public servant salaries and benefits…

The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, has described the bureaucratic burden on his officers as “death by 1,000 paper cuts.” Rowley told a joint summit of the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners on Wednesday: “Some of the officers I talked to are more worried about…