Tag: bureaucracy

The Deep State Is What Disables Democracy

Commentary The idea of democracy as it emerged gradually out of the Enlightenment, and drawing on ancient forms in Greece and Rome, is that the people govern themselves. People serve as the main determinants of the rules, laws, and legislation under which they live. They even set the rules concerning what people are allowed to…


Regulation Nation

Commentary It is clear to me that we have become a “Regulation Nation.” And we are governed by an “Administrative State.” What do I mean by that? I mean that we are being governed by regulations issued by administrative agencies, instead of being governed by laws duly passed by our elected officials. Why does that matter? Because agencies are…


Men Fighting Back Against the Gender Bureaucracy

Commentary It makes a pleasant change to see men fighting back—standing up to bureaucrats revelling in their feminist-bestowed power to crush ordinary blokes. Here are two stories of people facing injustice who took on the authorities and won. The first involved a senior doctor working in the health bureaucracy in Queensland, Australia, who suddenly found…


James Sherk: How Unelected Bureaucrats Sabotage Policy, Such As Trump’s—and What to Do About It

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PREMIERING NOW: James Sherk: How Unelected Bureaucrats Sabotage Policy, Such As Trump’s—and What to Do About It

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PREMIERING 8/23 7:30PM ET: James Sherk: How Unelected Bureaucrats Sabotaged Trump’s Policies—and What to Do About It

This episode will premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at 7:30 p.m. ET.  “It is just a nightmare trying to fire a federal employee,” says James Sherk, director of the Center for American Freedom at the America First Policy Institute. During the Trump administration, unelected federal bureaucrats delayed, blocked, or subverted much of Trump’s agenda, he…


PREMIERING 8/23 7:30PM ET: James Sherk: How Unelected Bureaucrats Sabotage Policy, Such As Trump’s—and What to Do About It

This episode will premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at 7:30 p.m. ET.  “It is just a nightmare trying to fire a federal employee,” says James Sherk, director of the Center for American Freedom at the America First Policy Institute. During the Trump administration, unelected federal bureaucrats delayed, blocked, or subverted much of Trump’s agenda, he…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: James Sherk: How Unelected Bureaucrats Sabotage Policy, Such As Trump’s—and What to Do About It

This episode will premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at 7:30 p.m. ET.  From Our Sponsor: Why Now Is the Time to Buy Gold & Silver with Goldco. Call 855-973-0470 for your FREE Wealth Protection Kit Today! “It is just a nightmare trying to fire a federal employee,” says James Sherk, director of the Center for…


How to Tame a Bureaucracy? Get Rid of It

Commentary Any serious effort to end the crisis must deal with the problem of the administrative state and the bureaucratic power thereof. Without that focus, no reform effort can get anywhere. That is surely a main takeaway from the trauma of our times. The solution has to be drastic and it has to work. The…


The Sadistic State

Commentary Governor Ron DeSantis has a theory about those 87,000 new tax collectors, some of whom will be armed, as unleashed by the latest legislative triumph of the monopoly party ruling Washington today. He believes that they will be political agents. They will target the middle class in particular, with the hopes of punishing those…