Michael D. Brown

The headlines in today’s news are not encouraging: Treasury Secretary Geithner says jobs created by the stimulus program cost an average $200,000 but were worth it, a super-rich doofus from Google shouts out to Obama at town hall meeting to “raise my taxes,” and Gallup reports that a new survey says half of Americans think [...]

David Rittgers of the CATO Institute has published an excellent baseline article advocating for the abolishment of the Department of Homeland Security. You can download the complete report here. Unfortunately, while his article is logical and persuasive, the undoing of a bureaucracy in Washington is virtually impossible, especially given the homeland-security-industrial-complex that has built up [...]

We need this debate. Without it, the United States will never, ever, get its fiscal house in order. And to think that two Republicans are epitomising the polar opposites shows how seriously the debate should be taken. Democrats will necessarily skip this debate, as it goes against their big government nature. A little background. FEMA [...]

Deadly Indifference, The Perfect (Political) Storm, published by Taylor Trade, an imprint of Rowan & Littlefield – not self-published – describes the problems encountered during Hurricane Katrina. I’ve not been asked to comment so far on Mayor Nagin’s recently self-published book, Katrina’s Secrets, nor do I need to comment on the book. I believe the [...]

Let me state up front – this article is not meant to blast FEMA or my former colleagues at the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A recent article from the UK’s Daily Mail is a classic example of why our continued dependence on the federal government, whether it be for [...]