Paul M. Jones | Government2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00What the "Anti-Federalists" Got Right2016-11-25T16:41:48-06:00First, the Anti-Federalists predicted that the federal government the Constitution created would increase its power until states were merely secondary considerations. Second, that this powerful federal government would be too big and distant for the ...Why They Sent Ahmed To Juvie2015-09-16T20:34:05-05:00Multiculturalism eliminates any shared sense of rules beyond an ever increasing tangle of bureaucratic doctrines. The administrators who sent him to a detention center were almost certainly following strict rules about how to respond to students brin...National Debt: "We Owe It To Ourselves"? Not Quite.2015-07-08T21:36:54-05:00The burden of the debt is that we create an ever-deeper conflict of interest between Lenders and Spenders. Yes, if you think of Lenders and Spenders collectively, you can say that âwe owe the debt to ourselves.â But that is a dangerously va...The TSA as Milgram Experiment2015-02-01T21:50:54-06:00I have had it in mind to write up an article about the TSA as an implementation of the Milgram experiment, but it's apparently old ground already covered:
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(Posted from inside Newark Airport, at which s...NYTimes: Low Carb Eaters Lose More Fat, Show Better Health2014-09-02T19:11:44-05:00People who avoid carbohydrates and eat more fat, even saturated fat, lose more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow the low-fat diet that health authorities have favored for decades, a major new study shows.
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The new...Most Federal Housing Subsidies Do *Not* Fund The Poor2014-08-11T21:03:39-05:00The bulk of homeownership expenditures go to the top fifth of households by income, who typically could afford to purchase a home without subsidies. According to estimates by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, more than three-fourths ...Potentially "Lethal Blow" For Obamacare: Subsidies Invalid In Most States2014-07-22T19:07:10-05:00in what NBC classified as a "potentially lethal blow to Obamacare" a federal appeals court has ruled that the federal government may not subsidize health insurance plans bought by people in states that decided not to set up their own marketplaces und...Why Government Worker Unions Should Be Illegal2014-06-25T16:39:22-05:00But this idea that bureaucrats -- very broadly defined -- can become their own class bent on protecting their interests at the expense of the public seems not only plausible but obviously true.
The evidence is everywhere. Every day it seems thereâ...All Project Failures Are Management Failures2013-10-31T12:59:23-05:00When you even contemplate bringing an old legacy system into a large-scale web project, you should do load testing on that system as part of the feasibility process before you ever write a line of production code, because if those old servers canâ...Healthcare.gov: 47 Different Contractors Built The Site?2013-10-16T15:16:37-05:00I donât hold it against the contractors that they had prior government experience. I donât hold it against them that they lobby or contribute to campaigns.
To me, the scandal is that there are 47 different organizations involved in building...