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• Whose tree is it?

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 550
  The ODT reports that Dunedin property owners are waiting anxiously for the decision on an application to fell a tree. It’s a 27m Sequoiadendron giganteum which could grow to 90m. It’s a 1,000 acre tree on a 1/4 acre section which is causing problems for the property owners and neighbours. But it’s listed as ...
  10 hours ago

• Nerd News: British Academic Bureaucracy Run Amok?

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 483
  Academia is dreadful enough on its own. So is bureaucracy. Now combine the two . Add the element of funding allocation and ...
  1 day ago

• From The City Journal Via Arts & Letters Daily: Who Needs Mathematicians For Math, Anyway?

  
  Chris Navin — Authority: 125
  Full article here . In the City Journal,  you know some of what to expect:  we’ve moved away from our best moral and intellectual traditions in favor of excessive egalitarianism.   Some of the culprits are on the political left and they need to be stopped. “Some influential educators sought to dismiss the ...
  1 day ago

• Angry Australian.

  
  Real World Libertarian — Authority: 124
  This should be listened to while reading "The Australian Letter of the Year." to put you in the mood. Those who have never had to deal with the Australian public service will probably consider the language a little intemperate. Americans are probably too inherently polite to hold a discussion of this nature, and ...
  1 day ago

• The Top Ten Most Destructive Government Actions Are...

  
  who's your nanny? — Authority: 121
  False Deficit Figures Looted Social Security Hidden Welfare Costs Duplication of Federal Programs Financial Mismanagement Misinterpreting the Constitution False Tax Policies Unfunded Mandates Alternative Minimum Tax Waste, Waste, Waste This is according to conservative writer Martin L. Gross. ...
  2 days ago

• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Cmon Obama, Lets have a real buildup in Afghanistan!

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 138
  This article, by Richard Lee, was posted to The Rag Blog, November 11, 2009 To Barack Obama: Let’s have a military buildup! You can show those crazy-ass generals at the Pentagon that you aren’t just a chicken-shit weenie from Harvard. You gotta do it right, however. Stop waffling about a measly 40,000 or 44,000 ...
  2 days ago

• Intellectual Hazard

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 135
  Moral hazard, which basically amounts to a personal incentive to do something unfair to someone else, is a familiar concept in the world of law and economics. A new paper on the financial crisis explores a parallel concept, "intellectual hazard", which is similar to the concept of "cognitive capture" in ...
  2 days ago

• what is the union bureaucracy?

  
  the commune — Authority: 476
  by Alberto Durango , a Colombian cleaner activist whose involvement in militant organising initiatives has earned him the wrath of sub-contractor cleaning companies and the Unite union bureaucracy alike. There are very few means by which the working class can arm itself with a political tool which educates the ...
  2 days ago

• Kelo Follow Up

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 653
  Well looks like the entire town of New London, Conn. is going to get screwed by Pfizer . “Look what they did,” Mr. Cristofaro said on Thursday. “They stole our home for economic development. It was all for Pfizer, and now they get up and walk away.” That sentiment has been echoing around New London since ...
  2 days ago

• How Epic Bureaucracy Led To GMs Doom [General Motors]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 777
  Have you ever wondered how a profit-seeking entity could have possibly produced the Pontiac Aztek? The answer lies in GMs century-old bureaucracy . Like all good bureaucracies, it helped to stifle innovation, squash dissent, and perpetuate bad ideas. When G.M. collapsed last year and turned to the government ...
  2 days ago

• White House Purge

  
  The Classic Liberal Blog — Authority: 585
  Obama Administration to Purge Republicans From the Civil Service Via Instapundit comes word that the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to purge the federal government of Republican civil servants all in the name of purify the federal bureaucracy. It is a typical Washington ...
  2 days ago

• Health Reform & Standards for Equal Justice

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 653
  The Urban Institute’s Eugene Stuerle is not very happy with the health care expansion legislation that is likely to be passed into law. Stuerle argues that the legislation violates the standards of equal justice. Of course, families in this income bracket pay far more than $14,700 for health care. They get hit ...
  2 days ago

• The Common Man tops Forbes list of world’s most powerless people

  
  Faking News — Authority: 545
  New Delhi. Common man of India, popularly depicted by the famous sketch of cartoonist R K Laxman, has been selected as the world’s most powerless person by the American magazine Forbes, known for coming up with innovative lists of people, places, products and other stuffs. The Common Man, who has more than a ...
  3 days ago

• Speed Blogging -- Totally Edition

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 591
  " Threat Level: Stupid ... Why Color-Coded Terror Alerts Have Made Us Less Safe." Totally . Sustainable personal finances, like sustainable water management, means spending less than you make. Totally , but the podcast [mp3] that says this also taught me some good stuff... Spreck at EDF worries about ...
  3 days ago

• About F@#$ing Time

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 451
  It looks like the IRS has set up a new unit in the organization to go after the tax dodges of the wealthy : A new Internal Revenue Service enforcement unit targeting the very wealthy will help the tax agency decode partnerships, offshore trusts and other complex techniques used to hide income, IRS Commissioner Doug ...
  3 days ago

• Qatari Police Balloon?

  
  Here There and Everywhere — Authority: 431
  I thought this was so cute when I passed it on B-ring today: I don’t know what it’s all about, but I like it that he has on bright clothing and a reflector vest to help him be safe while he is directing traffic.
  3 days ago

• Ignitable Drinking Water? WTF

  
  Technology you can trust here... — Authority: 154
  So exactly what is the mandate of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation? Classic government bureaucracy.
  3 days ago

• Regulating play

  
  Teaching Comparative — Authority: 126
  When a government agency sees its job as regulating something, its natural that the leaders and the bureaucrats in that agency might see more to regulate than outsiders do. And when two agencies have adjacent (or slightly overlapping) jobs, its easy to anticipate that they might be in competition with one another. ...
  3 days ago

• How to get bureaucracies to conserve water

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 591
  There are many examples of government wasting water (sprinklers in the rain, etc.) Although these examples make good press ("oh no, not again") they do little to reduce such waste. Heres how to reduce that waste: Charge them. I am pretty sure that many branches of government are not billed for their water use when ...
  3 days ago

• LEAKY HOMES, Part 1: The myth of deregulated building

  
  Not PC — Authority: 571
  " The building codes of the democracies embody, of course, only what the previous generation knew, or thought they knew, about building...” - Frank Lloyd Wright “ If a detailed, factual study were made of all those instances in the history of … industry which have been used by the statists as an indictment of ...
  4 days ago

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