by Dan Mitchell | Aug 3, 2010 | Blogs, Health Care
While the cartoon is amusing, I’m sure I don’t need to remind this audience that this isn’t really a joke. The IRS now has immense additional powers to micro-manage our lives.
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 10, 2010 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, “Someone may steal from it at night.” So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Congress said, “How does the watchman do his job...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
To preserve domestic tranquility, men should always shout “NO” when their wives ask “Does this make me look fat?” Well, Frenchmen now also have a legal reason to give that answer. In a nation where everything seemingly requires a role for...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 16, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Here’s a depressing story from the Columbus Dispatch that shows the government’s ability to be incompetent and wasteful at the same time. A labor dispute that never should have existed (but did, thanks to the incestuous relationship of unions and...
by Dan Mitchell | May 10, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Uncategorized
The blogging about Greece is too depressing, so let’s kick a couple of government bureaucracies for bone-headed stupidity. This excerpt is from a Pajamas Media story about how the Customs bureaucrats mistakenly confused BB guns for machine guns, and then turned...
