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Act Now! The Bipartisan Innovation Act Is a Reminder of the Urgent Need for a Bold National Elevator Plan

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Act Now! The Bipartisan Innovation Act Is a Reminder of the Urgent Need for a Bold National Elevator Plan

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/11/2022

President Biden on numerous occasions of late has complained about the miracle that one can simply drive to a McDonald’s in rural areas and…

Deregulation

A Brief Outline of a Regulatory Report Card Congress Should Enact

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A Brief Outline of a Regulatory Report Card Congress Should Enact

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/10/2022

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. — Quote frequently attributed to Galileo, that, alas, probably was not his.If I…

Deregulation

How Biden’s “Building a Better America” Agenda Consolidates Permanent Federal Power

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How Biden’s “Building a Better America” Agenda Consolidates Permanent Federal Power

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/04/2022

Biden’s “Building a Better America” is not about building America, but rather about spending to fatten an already overfed central government with a…

Deregulation

The DHS “Disinformation Governance Board” Needs to Be Dismantled

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The DHS “Disinformation Governance Board” Needs to Be Dismantled

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/28/2022

In recent months, an escalation of various forms of federal surveillance has become apparent. That’s bad enough, but the trend is rendered more problematic…

Deregulation

Biden’s Escalating Fusion of Regulation and Censorship Requires Decisive Pushback

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Biden’s Escalating Fusion of Regulation and Censorship Requires Decisive Pushback

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/18/2022

President Joe Biden’s “whole of government” advancement of numerous elements of an-interventionist “Building a Better America” agenda is accompanied by an alarming level…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Escalation of Surveillance Threatens Right to Anonymity

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Escalation of Surveillance Threatens Right to Anonymity

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/15/2022

The Biden administration has pressured big tech social media platforms to advance its policies in areas like cultural debates, climate interventions, and to stifle dissent…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Addressing Forever Crises

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Addressing Forever Crises

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/12/2022

It does not suffice for this administration to attribute record 8.5 percent inflation to “Putin’s price hike.” We have endured not just…

Deregulation

An Emergency Law to Extinguish Regulatory Dark Matter

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An Emergency Law to Extinguish Regulatory Dark Matter

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/07/2022

Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is: never. …. Nothing will ever return to the “broken”…

Deregulation

Getting Things Undone: Lessons from the Obliteration of Trump’s One-In, Two-Out Campaign

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Getting Things Undone: Lessons from the Obliteration of Trump’s One-In, Two-Out Campaign

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/05/2022

‘Tis the season. As midterms approach, we’re seeing “agendas” emerge from aspirational conservatives nominally opposed to Biden’s transformation of the United States. These anti-progressive inventories…

Deregulation

Edward Scissorhands and Federal Regulatory Disclosure

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Edward Scissorhands and Federal Regulatory Disclosure

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/22/2022

Recently, President Joe Biden proclaimed before the Business Roundtable’s CEO Quarterly Meeting on March 21 that there’s “going to be  new world order”…

Deregulation

Biden’s Whole-of-Government Equity Agenda Precludes Limited Government

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Biden’s Whole-of-Government Equity Agenda Precludes Limited Government

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/14/2022

A 1977 Reason magazine review of Friedrich Hayek’s “Law, Legislation, and Liberty (Vol. 2) noted Hayek’s contention “that the prime public concern should be,…

Deregulation

Biden’s Repudiation of Trump’s Regulatory Streamlining Agenda: An Inventory

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Biden’s Repudiation of Trump’s Regulatory Streamlining Agenda: An Inventory

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/08/2022

The explicit pro-regulatory shift by the Biden White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has entailed abandonment not merely of Trump’s…

Deregulation

One Nation, Ungovernable? The Bipolar Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations

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One Nation, Ungovernable? The Bipolar Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/02/2022

As we lurch from crisis to crisis, it is interesting to compare the way one administration’s philosophy of government response to both shock and normalcy…

Deregulation

Biden’s State of the Union “Trillions Down” on Big Government Mistakes

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Biden’s State of the Union “Trillions Down” on Big Government Mistakes

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/01/2022

Ladies and Gentlemen, the State of the Union is that of far more government control over the nation’s economy in years. The years following 2022…

Deregulation

Joe Biden and Merrick Garland Promise New Regulation in Agriculture and other Sectors

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Joe Biden and Merrick Garland Promise New Regulation in Agriculture and other Sectors

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/05/2022

After stepping off into the snow upon arrival Monday, January 3, President Joe Biden headed back to the White House, where his first action of…

Deregulation

Biden’s Fall 2021 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulation Heralds Abandonment of Regulatory Oversight Role

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Biden’s Fall 2021 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulation Heralds Abandonment of Regulatory Oversight Role

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/13/2021

The Biden administration has just released the Fall 2021 edition of the twice-yearly Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.

Deregulation

An Inaccurate Update on OMB’s Inaccurately Reported Costs of Federal Regulation

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An Inaccurate Update on OMB’s Inaccurately Reported Costs of Federal Regulation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 11/17/2021

Here inside the Beltway we are now in fiscal year 2022. In anticipation of the next edition of the chronically late “annual” Report to Congress…

Deregulation

How to Prepare for Administrative State Reform While Stuck in a Progressive Ditch

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How to Prepare for Administrative State Reform While Stuck in a Progressive Ditch

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 11/12/2021

Would-be regulatory reformers find themselves in a ditch during the Biden administration, which regards Trump deregulatory efforts as “harmful” and overturned reform-related executive orders…

Deregulation

Federal Agency “Significant” Rulemakings Return to Bush-Obama Heights

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Federal Agency “Significant” Rulemakings Return to Bush-Obama Heights

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 11/01/2021

While agencies are on track to issue about the same number of rules as they did last year, the number of “significant” rules among…

Deregulation

The Radicalism of “Build Back Better” Is the Crisis that Classical Liberals Must Not Let Go to Waste

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The Radicalism of “Build Back Better” Is the Crisis that Classical Liberals Must Not Let Go to Waste

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
  • 10/15/2021

If the mantra of the day is, “Never let crisis go to waste,” then what are we to do when artificial crisis is being created…

Deregulation

Why Government Infrastructure Spending Crowds Out Private Investment and Innovation

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Why Government Infrastructure Spending Crowds Out Private Investment and Innovation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 08/10/2021

Those proclaiming of the Senate infrastructure bill that none of the spending is needed are correct. In embracing this gigantic spending bill, Republicans have helped preclude the…

Deregulation

Enshrining Cronyism

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Enshrining Cronyism

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 07/09/2021

If you like your cronyism, you can keep it. For that matter, if you like your income inequality, you can keep that too. Highly reminiscent…

Deregulation

Biden’s Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulation, by the Numbers

Blog

Biden’s Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulation, by the Numbers

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/11/2021

The Biden administration released the Spring 2021 edition of the twice-yearly Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions today. The purpose…

Deregulation

Stimulating the COVID Recovery without Trillions in Spending

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Stimulating the COVID Recovery without Trillions in Spending

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/09/2021

Over at Inside Sources, I make the case that deregulation, freer trade, and continued vaccinations will do more to open up the economy than…

Deregulation

Why Republicans Should Abandon the Infrastructure Compromise with the White House

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Why Republicans Should Abandon the Infrastructure Compromise with the White House

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/08/2021

The GOP should go nowhere near any trillion-dollar infrastructure deal with the White House. Reasons include the already enacted stratospheric COVID spending that couldn’t…

Deregulation

Biden’s $6 Trillion Budget Should Warn Republicans to Drop Infrastructure Compromise

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Biden’s $6 Trillion Budget Should Warn Republicans to Drop Infrastructure Compromise

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/28/2021

The release of the Biden $6 trillion, biggest-ever and latest-in-a-century fiscal year 2022 budget proposal is a good time to reflect upon…

Deregulation

The Endless Frontier Act to Boost Science and Tech Can Mean Endless Regulation

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The Endless Frontier Act to Boost Science and Tech Can Mean Endless Regulation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/19/2021

Related to regulatory effects of mass spending on national plans and the deadweight costs of spending, are the distortions, diversion of resources, and…

Innovation

EPA Follows Through on Biden Directive to Hide Guidance Documents from the Public

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EPA Follows Through on Biden Directive to Hide Guidance Documents from the Public

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/18/2021

Before President Joe Biden signed an executive order called Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation that, among much else, instructed federal agencies…

Deregulation

Universal Basic Income and the Custodial Administrative State

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Universal Basic Income and the Custodial Administrative State

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/04/2021

The American Families Plan (EFP), touted both before and during President Biden’s address to Congress, is still a work in progress, with…

Deregulation

Runaway Spending and Regulation Call for an Abuse-of-Crisis Prevention Act

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Runaway Spending and Regulation Call for an Abuse-of-Crisis Prevention Act

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/21/2021

The escalation of spending and regulation in the face of economic shock—by means of “resets,” “New New Deals,” “new social contracts,” and “Build…

Deregulation

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  • Michelle Minton
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