Drain the swamp Archives

Banning Paper Straws, Gulf of America Day, And Another Agency Bites the Dust

February 11, 2025 Steve MacDonald

One of President Trump’s earliest outrages was renaming things from mountains to army bases. Maybe the un-re-naming of them is a better way to say it. The virtue-signalers that preceded this administration (following in the footsteps of a previous “previous” administration) burnished its paper-thin resume by renaming things like Mt McKinley. That 2015 change turned … Read more

It’s Time To Drain The Swamp

January 30, 2025 Skip

The denizens of the Federal Government, all two million plus, continue complaining, kvetching, and crying as Trump introduces them to a feature that MANY of us out here in the private sector have endured for decades: layoffs, firings, company/corporate bankruptcies, and now, buyouts. In the last case, you get the option to resign, and we … Read more

A Few of Trump’s “Political Enemies”

November 16, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The party that prosecutes its political opponents has invested some small amount of “sound and fury,” suggesting that Donald Trump might return the favor in kind without admitting they’d been doing it all along. That the Donald had it out for his political enemies and that they would be rounded up and jailed (like Americans … Read more

The Federal Workforce Must Be Cleaned Out

March 20, 2022December 12, 2021 Kensley Vitoria

When people throw around the term Deep State it is instantly polarizing. Two camps emerge — in one, there are those who really don’t pay too much attention to politics or the actual functions of the state: defending the country, upholding a free and fair market, and managing the government’s day-to-day bureaucracy however large or small.

Quick Takes – Hat Trick

November 5, 2021 NITZAKHON

Within I pick three topics upon which to discourse, but not worth a full-length examination as a standalone piece on their own. But first, reprising an older cartoon (for shameless self-promotion!):

Merge The Departments of Education and Labor And Other Things To Make Liberals Mad

September 26, 2018June 22, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Mr. Trump has some changes he’d like to make in Washington, and the Left is losing their mind.

The White House on Thursday announced its plan to merge the Departments of Labor and Education into a single Cabinet agency in order to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy and streamline overlapping regulations and department functions.

The two departments would merge into the Department of Education and the Workforce (DEW), aimed at “meeting the needs of American students and workers, from education and skill development to workplace protection to retirement security,” according to a White House outline of the plan.