This same question came up in the early Bush years, when John Gibson of Fox News asked what the Saudis would do about a situation. This was in the days before 9/11, of factional in-fighting between King Fahd’s brothers, one…
Putting the “Service” Back Into Public Service, Part IV
This is Part IV of the series, A History of Government Employment. Everything we have learned, from public employment in the USSR, the European Union and Wisconsin tells us that… Bureaucracy kills. And it kills totally. And when it’s not…
Great Catholic Soldiers of the Cross You Never Heard of, Irena Sendler
(A hat tip to Arwen, who posted this story over to me.) Because United Patriots celebrates soldiers against the Left, I want to mention two here on Good Friday. The first is Irena Sendler, shown here, who, at a much…
America, The Fly in Government Employment’s Buttermilk, Part II
This is Part II of our History of Government Employment. In Part I we established that government employment, mostly armed to the teeth, has been around for thousands of years longer than government. We also learned that since Thag, King…
Has the President Articulated an End Game in Afghanistan lately?
Not an exit strategy, but an end game that is spelled V-I-C-T-O-R-Y? I’m watching Obama paint himself into a corner on this budget deal-government shut down, and believe there are simply some things that he cannot bring himself to do.…