Oligarchs, Toward a Working Definition Inside the Deep State
Steve Bannon recently referred to Michael Bloomberg as an "oligarch", which I believe is a fair extension of the term, since it has been used selectively in the media to a more narrow club membership, as if Russian...
The Federal District of Detroitia
(Columbia is a feminine form of "Columbus", FYI)
I'll try to be brief and avoid the snark, but this is an idea whose time has come and could be a winning plank in the Republican campaign...
The Deep State, Where a Different Type of Natural Laws Apply
If you want a sense of "deep state history", read the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in all six volumes, written by Edward Gibbon in the 1780s. I have the one-volume...
Russia-Bad vs Ukraine-Bad, and the “I Can Train Monkeys to Make Underwear” thesis of...
Part 2
As I related in Part 1, I came to Kentucky by accident in 1979, thinking I was en route to Germany to work for my old boss from Japan, as an Army civilian...
Cut Bureaucracy Down to Size Now
(Originally published in 2013,, as "Sequestration Pain Management" at the beginning of Obama's second term, this is repeated with no changes.)
Since LBJ’s Great Society we have spent $15 TRILLION dollars on the war on poverty....