Our federal agencies are broken – here’s how to fix them
Embed from Getty Images News broke last week that the Social Security Administration is seeking to expedite its backlog of disability claims by allowing employees of the agency to adjudicate cases. There’s just one problem. Those cases are supposed to be decided by independent judges—not bureaucrats on the SSA payroll. “I would say the […]
Beloved NY Chinese restaurant closes and leaves a note blaming suffocating government demands
Customers in Manhattan were surprised when they went to their favorite Chinese restaurant and realized the owners had closed it. Permanently.
Our education system isn’t broken, it’s all going according to plan
Imagine living in The Truman Show — that movie starring Jim Carrey in which he plays a man whose entire life was planned and built by a production team who turned it into a 24/7 reality TV drama — and having no grasp of actual history, reality, or what the future holds. Well, one associate […]
The rise in gun ownership for one group in America might surprise you
Embed from Getty Images Gun ownership is on the rise in America. There have been multiple reports about the record-breaking sales in the lead-up to the presidential election as folks worried about the possibility of Hillary Clinton in the White House stockpiled for the worst-case scenario. But when Donald Trump won, sales eased off by […]
Michael Farris is leaving the Convention of States to head up the Alliance Defending Freedom
It is with both sadness and great excitement that I announce that Mike Farris, my co-founder of the Convention of States Project, and one of my closest friends is moving on to a new endeavor as the President, CEO and General Counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom, the world’s premiere defender of religious freedom.