bureaucrats

Fred Thompson, Tuesday, September 30, 2008

McCain calls the Keating scandal "my asterisk." Over the years, his opponents have failed to turn it into a period.

- - The Arizona Republic, March 1, 2007

In a press release from the Department of Justice, DOJ says Certificate of Need Laws violate competition.  Attention: Tennessee is doing the same thing.  Is there anyway their task force can look at us?

Senator John McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention contained these words regarding education:

Equal access to public education has been gained, but what is the value of access to a failing school?

We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice.

Ben Cunningham, somewhat surprisingly, doesn’t seem to be as much of fan of Karl Dean’s plan to go to the private sector to enrich the public schools as he could be:

For many years I have been the optimist. The enthusiasm that I experienced in my daily interactions with entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs was contagious. The data that was showing a shift to an entrepreneurial economy gave me so much hope for the future.

I was peerusin some humor site this morning when I came across a list of "13 things you won't believe are against the law somewhere."

Two of the laws stood out and I thought they deserved to be shared;

Sen. Burchett explains how he using the bill filing process as a form of constituent service:

Finally, a potential use for kudzu:

“Everybody knows that you can make ethanol from corn and soy bean,” says Mizell. “What most people don’t know is that you can make ethanol from anything green.

Elizabeth Ulrich with the Scene has a chilling tale of teetotaler bureaucrats drunk with power.