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 condensed version, and in just reading that,…
Category: Business and Economy
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 political greed is unique. This is…
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 legislative agenda for 2020. It…
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. Put another way, the American…
Tracing the Gentleman’s International League of Gutter Trash
I started this little investigation into gutter trashery with Joe Biden for Joe is pre-Baby Boomer, so comes from a generation who should have known the value of keeping little private weaknesses out of the public eye. So, just in terms of the…