Bureaucracy

A group of so-called ghost civil servants in France, some of whom have not done a days work since 1989, drew combined salaries of one million euros a year. 

California Governor Jerry Brown ordered an audit of the state’s troubled Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) — after Republican John Cox made the long wait times and administrative chaos of the DMV a core issue in his 2018 campaign.

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, where the conversation began with President Trump’s revised executive order on immigration and covered the Iran nuclear deal.

The federal bureaucracy is comprised of about 2.6 million permanent employees protected by Civil Service and about 4,000 political appointees. Many of these bureaucrats are actively engaged in sabotaging President Trump’s agenda.

Search the Internet for “China” and “corruption” today, and you’ll be swamped with links to the Panama Papers story, in which Chinese officials and their families were among the many world leaders revealed to have millions of dollars socked away in overseas accounts. (That’s assuming you perform your web search outside the grasp of Chinese censors, of course.)

Former Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn discussed economic policy and the coming financial crisis with host Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily Thursday morning. Coburn believes we have not passed the tipping point to disaster just yet, but warns that “a hard time is coming.”

Some National Health Service (NHS) hospitals are running on a “Soviet-style model,” devoting twice the amount of space to accommodating bureaucracy than they do to patients, a government report has found. The report’s author, Lord Carter of Coles has advised

Two professors of public policy conclude that governments are more likely to violate environmental law than private owners. “Publicly-owned facilities are more likely than similar privately-owned facilities to violate regulatory requirements under the CAA [Clean Air Act] and the SDWA [Safe Drinking Water Act],” as their recent study notes.

In Marty McFly’s 2015 hover boards had just one, fairly avoidable weakness – they couldn’t fly over water. But in real world 2015, Britain has found a much more effective method of stopping them in their tracks: government policy. Inspired

When activists conspire with like-minded bureaucrats to impose mutually agreeable compulsive agendas on the rest of the public, the arrangement is every bit as corrupt as any crude payoff scheme. The result is the same: a conspiracy against the public interest, for the benefit of a powerful few.

Britain must completely ban parents from smacking their children, a report submitted to the UN has demanded. The UK’s four children’s commissioners call for the “immediate” repeal of all laws permitting parents to physically chastise their children and tell the

A student has changed his name by deed poll to Adam West because it was cheaper than paying Ryanair’s administrative fees. Adam Armstrong was told by the company that it would cost him £220 to change the name on his plane

A favorite game played at the nexus of Big Government and Big Business is the imposition of regulatory schemes that crush small players and upstart market competitors, while imposing bearable costs on established titan companies with high-powered lobbying operations.

Director John Brennan has ordered a sweeping reorganization of the CIA, an overhaul designed to make its leaders more accountable and close espionage gaps amid widespread concerns about the spy agency’s limited insights into a series of major global developments.