Supreme Court ruling strikes down CDC’s eviction moratorium
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down the Centers for Disease Control’s modified eviction moratorium, handing a victory both to property rights and limited government. In the unsigned…
Inflation for thee, but not for Uncle Sam (or his dependents)
Rising prices – inflation – affects us all. Or does it? For the federal government, inflation is something to measure, but not necessarily to worry about, thanks to automatic adjustments…
The ‘biggest organized fraud heist’ that plundered COVID relief
While portions of official Washington rub their foreheads trying to understand how hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives were wasted in Afghanistan, there’s a reminder…
Playing politics with government retirement funds
One of the federal governments largest assets is the $500 billion or so employees have invested in the Thrift Savings Plan. Worryingly, all that cash sitting in the federal employee…
Punishment of small landlords continues
While the Biden administration’s constitutionally dubious eviction moratorium continues to make its way through the courts, the people left out of the discussion – small landlords – continue to suffer…
About those solar panel tariffs
The story of solar power companies asking the federal government to extend tariffs on foreign solar panels – in the name of national security, among other items – got our…
Fighting the gender wars in Afghanistan
The Special Inspector General’s summary report on Afghanistan reconstruction is loaded with examples of how the U.S. wasted billions on trying to build a modern democracy on medieval foundations. But…
Worse than the fall of Saigon
The popular pushback against comparisons of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul with that of Saigon in 1975 is that they are entirely different, and can’t be compared in any way,…
State Department drops $2,000 fee for evacuation flights
The State Department has decided it will drop the usual $2,000 fee it charges people to take evacuation flights from war-torn or disaster areas like Afghanistan: People evacuated from Afghanistan…
The litany of waste in Afghanistan
Inside the Special Inspector General’s Report on Afghanistan are examples of how the U.S, government wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on equipment, building projects, and policies. Bloomberg gathered a…