As Congress returns to work this week, it will confront a fixed reality – the fiscal year for the U.S....
The many benefits received by those entering the U.S. illegally, the failure of the government to punish violent crimes, and...
In this second issue of the ‘Articles from the Archives’ series, www.ReformTheKakistocracy.com presents four previously published articles on climate change....
Says Pulitzer-Nominated Author, Ronald Stein By Tom White, Benzinga Contributor, and Ronald Stein, energy policy advisor, engineer, and Pulitzer Prize-nominated...
The federal government uses its tax, borrowing, spending, and regulatory powers to control most of the economic activity in the...
Dear Readers: This week, I was honored to learn that my book, Devolution of Power, Rolling Back the Federal State...
The 2024 presidential campaign is between two political candidates promising socialism with massive subsidies to corporations, notwithstanding both claiming to...
President-elect Donald Trump intends to establish an Efficiency Commission, a body dedicated to identifying and eliminating inefficiencies within the federal...
William L. Kovacs In this third issue of the ‘Articles from the Archives’ series, www.ReformTheKakistocracy.com presents five previously published articles...
DOGE stands for the Department of Government Efficiency, a creation of President-elect Trump. This five-part series describes the DOGE and...
William L. Kovacs This article is Part II of a five-part series that provides a brief history of the many...
In the clutter of the bureaucracy, politicians seek to reinvent the Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (WFA”) magic wheel, this time...
This fourth issue of the ‘Articles from the Archives’ series, www.ReformTheKakistocracy.com, links five previously published articles on Joe Biden’s diminished...
The purported goal of the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) is to reduce the size and spending of the federal...
President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) has huffed and puffed about shrinking the federal government. DOGE is looking at...
During President Donald Trump’s first term (2017- 2021), hordes of Democrat lawyers took to research and writing law review articles...
My article “Are Biden’s Pardons Valid? Democrat Scholars Say No” was the subject of a twenty-five-minute interview on the Conservative...
Now that Biden’s presidency has ended, Congress must uncover who exercised the duties of the presidency during his period of...
On March 21, 2021, within two months of Biden taking office, ReformTheKakistocracy.com was the first to raise the question—Will Joe...
My article “DOGE: Can’t Shrink Government Without Eliminating Its Power” was the subject of a two- hour radio discussion on...
Articles from the Achieves Number 5. In addition to the regular commentary on government reform, Reform the Kakistocracy periodically links...
President Trump is aggressively attempting to reset the current operating structure of the U.S. Constitution. He is doing so by...
If the President and the Republican Congress are serious about abolishing the Department of Education and increasing test scores by...
It’s ironic that the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, a man who received $38 billion in contracts from the federal...
While one can define a nationwide injunctions (a court order compelling the federal government to take a specific action or...
William L. Kovacs The New York Times described Donald Trump’s 2015 theatrical descent on the escalator in Trump Tower as...
William L. Kovacs In 1976, Congress enacted the National Emergencies Act, which delegates extra powers to the President to address...
William L. Kovacs As Congress struggles with Budget Reconciliation, a $37 trillion National Debt, a trillion-dollar annual deficit, a seemingly...
William L. Kovacs Since June 2021, Reform the Kakistocracy has been hunting for the ghosts performing Joe Biden’s presidential duties...
In his 1970 book Future Shock, Alvin Toffler argued that society was undergoing such enormous technological and social change that...
William L. Kovacs On June 22, 2025, President Trump did what no other U.S. President dared do: he ordered the...
Big corporations are gaga over artificial intelligence (“AI”). It is estimated they have invested almost a trillion dollars in the...
The uproar in the MAGA world over the failure to release the Jeffrey Epstein client list should be a cause...
It’s common to hear the man on the street say, “My vote doesn’t matter,” or “Government doesn’t care about me,”...
Presidents issue Executive Orders to assert their power to make law. While the Constitution gives the lawmaking power to Congress,...
President Trump successfully campaigned against the Administrative State. Now, he is in the process of dismantling it. The question is...
Devolution of Power William L. Kovacs Paperback-Press/A & S Publishing 9781960499790, $9.99 Paperback/$2.99 eBook Devolution of Power: Rolling Back the...
The report by the House Impeachment Committees on Oversight and Accountability, Judiciary, and Ways and Means recognizes that the DOJ’s...
Introducing Articles from the Archives In addition to the regular commentary on government reform, ReformTheKakistocracy.com will periodically link the reader...
Our 2024 presidential candidates present tax reform as a slogan, ‘No taxes on tips,’ and vague statements about lowering tax...
It’s appropriations time in Washington, DC. Both parties promise tax cuts. The Republican Convention, for its “Make America Wealthy” night,...
On June 17, 2024, www.ReformTheKakistocracy.com published “Red States Can Sue NY for Election Interference in Sup. Ct.” On July 11,...
The recent decisions by the conservative U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) at the end of its 2024 term are of significant...
The 2024 presidential election is being manipulated by New York, which is using its legal system as a front organization...
The great writer Hunter Thompson wrote, “Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people...
Yes, you read the headline correctly. Federal student loans account receivables are the largest asset held by the U.S. treasury....
For immediate release: Author’s new book receives a warm literary welcome. Readers’ Favorite announces the review of the Non-Fiction –...
As part of the impeachment inquiry of President Biden, Congress should ask itself – What is more important to the...
Litigation between Texas and the United States over Texas’s right to defend itself by securing its border with Mexico from...
Sharon Rondeau, the editor of the Post & Email published this book review of “Devolution of Power” on her site,...
Our largest corporations foolishly relish greenwashing the products they sell to Americans. “[G]reenwashing…unsubstantiated claim[s] to deceive consumers into believing that...
No one knows how many illegal immigrants are in this country, or as President Biden dubs them, “the newcomers.” Before...
The US Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management recently designated two Wind Energy Areas in deepwater areas off the...
The mainstream media and the Progressive Left rejoice over New York securing a 464-million-dollar judgment against former President Trump, his...
In my new book, Devolution of Power: Rolling Back the Federal State to Preserve the Republic, I address a question...
The stunning indictment of Mr. Smirnov for lying (he was a long-time FBI confidential informant on many matters, including Biden...
Congress is again fighting over the funding of undeclared wars or U.S. proxies (Ukraine, Israel) involved in wars in which...
The Southern border of the U.S. is a mess with millions illegally walking into the U.S. and being welcomed with...
Last year, I speculated that the actions of the Democrats’ January 6th committee hearings (the “Monkey Trial”), the alleged Russian...
The federal government is very slick in sticking the cost on others for programs it wants implemented but wants to...
(Part III of III parts) Parts I and II suggest climate skeptics change their lobbying strategy from the current focus...
(Part II of III parts) Part I discussed how the Progressive Left transitioned their climate strategy from one of oppressive...
(Part I of III parts) As 90,000 corporate and environmental elites land their private planes in Dubai to be exquisitely...
Part III The devolution of power from the federal government to the states is highly likely in the next decade....
Part II: Series on Devolving Power to the States As the spending minuet plays out between the House and Senate...
For the last several weeks, Congress has been unable to function because of its inability to elect a Speaker of...
It’s appropriation season in Congress. As part of its annual ritual, Congress is unable to get its job done. It’s...
Without being a card player, it can be difficult to spot a cardsharp who cheats by manipulating cards to serve...
Between now and September 30, 2023, Congress must fund the government, a task it has been unable to do on...
Since Sinclair Lewis wrote “It Can’t Happen Here” in 1935, many authors have raised the question: Is Democracy so fragile...
The appointment of David Weiss to be Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation has caused outrage in political circles....
Corruption in the Biden administration is destroying the Rule of Law. Since DOJ will not prosecute its criminal activity, the nation is becoming lawless.
The eight most disingenuous words used by federal agencies to hide their criminal activity are “I can’t answer, the matter is under investigation.”
Biden’s student loan forgiveness effort is a poker bluff. It’s time House Republicans raised the ante by betting the defunding of the Department of Education.
The “Wild West” is a place without laws or controls. This definition perfectly describes the federal government’s prosecution in U.S....
Since the Biden administration promised to eliminate all fossil fuels, climate change activists have transitioned from seeking to use the...
In 1998, Henry Hyde, then chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, noted, “Authorization [the congressional reauthorization process to renew laws]...
As investigations of the Biden administration and related activities proceed in the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, the Department of...
On May 10, 2023, a Rasmussen survey found 62% of voters do not believe the government spends money wisely. Only...
The United States, for centuries touted itself as a Rule of Law society. Citizens believe we are all equal before...
On March 21, 2021, ReformTheKakistocracy.com was the first to raise the question – Will Joe Biden be the 21st-century James...
The Federal government has citizens living in information confusion, misinformation, and conspiracy theories. Information clutter explains why only two in...
The green climate zealots have successfully formed two interstate Compacts consisting of twelve states to address the climate change issue...
For decades environmental think tanks have been developing a theory called Personal Carbon Allowances (“PCA”). It is a unified Marxist...
Russia’s biggest weapon (and China’s too) is fossil fuel energy US focus on climate change and fossil fuel suppression...
The 118Th Congress has been in session for several months and again proves it is as irrelevant as it has...
Many eco-activists (and too many legislators, regulators, judges and journalists) have trouble thinking beyond slogans. They apparently believe declaring ecological...
It’s time for Congress and the president to shed their thirty-five-year delusion that the federal government can manage the nation’s...
U.S. Climate Czar John Kerry’s January 18, 2023 speech at the World Economic Forum was viewed by us commoners, as he...
For decades there have been concerns about the federal government’s growing power, size, and cost. Nothing, however, has been done...
With the drama of electing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House and approving new rules for the operation of...
Failure of basic fiduciary duties to investors is just the tip of ESG fraud iceberg Warning: Your retirement fund may...
The Christmas season is a time of giving. Young children sit on Santa’s knee and provide him with a list...
In the oft-told story, The Emperor’s New Clothes, the vain emperor was constantly showing off his new clothes and wanting...
Congress has worked hard over the last few decades to make itself an irrelevant institution. It has achieved a bumbling...
Dear Republicans, the talking heads and the pollsters were very wrong about the definite red wave. But it looks like...
Under our Constitution, the people are the sovereign. We the people then hire the federal government to run the nation...
The federal government is a perpetual gravy train for the well-off. It uses taxpayer money to forgive the Paycheck Protection...
Trust is a simple concept; it is the assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or...
As the 2022 elections for Congress approach, citizens should ask to whom an elected official owes a duty of loyalty....
Since the beginning of the republic, there has been a debate over the scope of Congress’s power to spend our...
The Biden administration is claiming Congress, by its enactment of national emergency statutes, has given the president the power to...
I am telling you lies because I can’t tell you the truth. If I told you the truth, you would...
As governments and their institutions, big business, financial institutions, environmental groups, and the radical left are consumed with anxiety over...
On June 30, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ended twenty years of efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and...
By implementing the policies of the radical environmental left, president Joe Biden will become the transformative figure he believes he...
The bureaucracy wants to work permanently from home, a major workforce change. Congress should use this opportunity to impose term limits on bureaucrats.
Congress should refuse to spend on Biden’s priorities, such as the Department of Education until Biden builds the border wall and enforces immigration laws.
Is pausing the Department of Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Governance Board” (“DGB”) a victory for free speech or merely a clever...
President Biden has been evading several court orders to implement the nation’s “Remain in Mexico” policy without consequence other than...
By a 57 to 47 percent margin, the polls consistently show a Republican takeover of at least the House of...
On March 28, 2022, President Biden hosted the annual Budget Pageant. This release of a massive book of proposals and...
Articles Index: www.ReformTheKakistocracy.com (Revd. April 10, 2022 -hyperlinks all active) Dear Readers: To make finding older articles easier than searching...
Scholars pontificate on the brilliance of the separation of powers in our Constitution as a means of protecting citizens by...
The apocalyptic talk about climate change is nothing more than a diversion tactic by the government, the radical Left, and...
Citizens received an education in the last year on the destructive capacity of the government’s use of emergency laws to...
The outcome of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is far from certain. However, what is certain is that Ukraine is fortunate...
Americans are obsessed with weight loss but generally, they are getting heavier each year. The same is true for an...
The House Republicans act as if they are powerless to resist the Biden, Pelosi & Squad insanity infecting our government....
Freedom-loving people may believe the U.S. is at the edge of darkness with Biden’s 76 Executive Orders, 46 Presidential Memoranda, and 176 Presidential...
Remember when the media reported the Biden administration was contemplating paying illegal migrant families $450,000 per person as a settlement...
Republicans and Democrats have used their political power to impose a massive and unjust national debt of $30 trillion...
Returning to a simple tax code and a short Form 1040 will create jobs and raise money for the government by...
Federal tax laws primarily tax labor, wealth accumulates tax-free When it comes to tax reform it is amazing how...
The local, state, and federal governments already spend more, on average, on public education, than it would cost to award...
The last three presidents of the U.S. (George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump) have imposed $22 trillion in additional National...
(Revd. November 6, 2021 -hyperlinks all active) Dear Readers: To make finding older articles easier than searching through the Archives...
Dear Uncle Joe: Mr. President, while you are not my uncle Joe, we did grow up in the same neighborhood...
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, “RCRA,” the primary federal law regulating solid and hazardous waste, was signed into law...
“Insane” is defined as a “state of mind which prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction.” This definition perfectly squares...
Biden’s refusal to enforce our national immigration laws or control illegal immigration across an open Southern border immediately harms the...
The Texas abortion law is a 21st c. version of what the 18th c. called Personal Liberty Laws. These were...
It’s difficult to Characterize the decision-making process of the Biden administration. Nothing makes sense, not Biden fumbling his words reading...
This Part V of “Can the U.S. Unite, if not, How Does it Divide? discusses the options available to states...
This Part IV of “Can the U.S. Unite, if not, How Does it Divide? discusses actions taken by states to...
Part III of the series “Can the U.S Unite? If not, How Does It Divide?” addresses how the federal government,...
Part II of the series “Can the U.S Unite? If not, How Does It Divide?” makes the analogy that States...
Every aspect of U.S. society seems like it is getting more and more polarized. Politicians tear at each other. The...
The Biden administration confirms it aggressively works with Big Tech “…to flag ‘problematic’ posts “that spread disinformation on Covid-19” on...
(Revd. July 15, 2021 -hyperlinks all active) Dear Readers: To make finding older articles easier than searching through the Archives...
For the last several weeks’ members of Congress have publicly complained the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has been “dumping,”...
There are probably more well-deserved jokes about the U.S. Congress than any institution in the world. Will Rogers quipped “When...
To my readers: In the last month, I was fortunate to have the Independent Press Awards produce a one-minute video...
Critics of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“sec. 230”) have discussed reforming it for a decade. Section 230...
Mainstream media, for whatever its political objectives might be, avoids discussion of the proverbial “Elephant in the room.” While uncomfortable...
There is no polite way to say this – “Wake Up America,” a federal default on the national debt will...
Part I of this series charted the massive increase in the debt of the U.S., by both political parties, over...
The 2021 Independent Press Award for the category of Social/Political Change, was awarded to Reform the Kakistocracy: Rule by the...
With the end of the fiscal year (“FY”) 2020 and estimates for FY 2021, the facts are clear. Republicans cannot...
The Twilight Zone (1959 – 1964), one of the most popular TV shows of all time, takes us on a...
Articles Index: www.ReformTheKakistocracy.com (Revd. Ap 6, 2021 -hyperlinks all active) Dear Readers: To make finding older articles much easier than...
Readers of the political press are familiar with the actions of Big Tech to censor the social media speech of...
For those unfamiliar with the name James Buchanan, he was the nation’s 15th president. Most historians consider Buchanan the nation’s...
After the 2020 election, there were several articles on the future of the Libertarian Party (“LP”) fighting to be heard...
This article started out to be a well-researched effort to identify all the legal avenues available to parents to force...
Part I, “Unity Not Possible When Government Is in Overdrive” discusses the 52 Executive Orders (“EOs”) issued by President Biden...
For as horrific as the seizing of the Capitol was on January 6, 2021, it appears that the Biden administration...
Candidate Biden campaigned to bring unity to the country. But the horrific seizing of the Capitol on January 6, 2021,...
In the frenzied days after Democrats won control of Congress, the presidency, and rioters invaded the Capitol, Big Tech, relying...
January 6, 2021, the electoral college elects Joe Biden the 46th President of the United States. The Republic still stands,...
Your life, living standards, country, and planet will take a big hit under the Green New Deal Joe Biden, Kamala...
If there is a time and place to fight for freedom and defeat of socialism, it is the two Georgia...
President Trump’s 2020 election loss raises the question – Will he pardon himself before leaving office? It would free him...
Why should we be surprised that the Covid-19 pandemic is the perfect situation for viewing political hypocrisy? It allows politicians...
The 2nd battle of Atlanta is on January 5, 2021. Atlanta and its suburbs comprise almost two-thirds of the population...
MBR Bookwatch Volume 19, Number 11 November 2020 Review by D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review. Direct Link to...
Notwithstanding factual issues of fraud, dead people voting, and observers not able to observe, there is a real legal issue...
If the winner of the 2020 presidential election is Joe Biden, the real question is – what exactly can he...
Ben Franklin wondered if we can remain a Republic. With political efforts to undermine fair elections, he may get his answer after the 2020 election.
Expanding the right to vote has been a struggle. While the right to vote has greatly expanded, there are still 111 million non-voters. These citizens have the power to reform the nation through a legally authorized revolution - voting.
The radical Left uses concern for the environment to attack capitalism and scare the U.S. into socialism. The actual words of the Left tell the real story of hatred of capitalism, truth is not relevant, and people must go.
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Election 2020, a mix of pandemic, reckless musings by presidential campaigns, uncoordinated federal and state election laws, and ballot litigation,...
Politicians have voting “ass-backward.” They believe voting is about them and their exalted role as our “rulers.” They believe voters...
The 2020 Presidential election may test the competence of Congress to manage the Republic. The House has elected two presidents...
Most days after reading a few newspapers and watching a few cable “news channels,” (liberal and conservative outlets), I ask...
The events of the summer of 2020 bring issues of justice, inequality, racism, and civil rights to national attention. President...
ReformTheKakistocracy.com, a blog that explores ideas for reforming the federal government so it works for people not politicians, announces it...
Mr. President, in your July 3rd Mount Rushmore speech, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, you exclaimed we are...
Leaders can be elected U.S. presidential leadership has changed dramatically from Harry Truman, a real-wartime president, to Donald Trump and...
Perhaps a discussion of “personhood” that compares the political rights of humans and corporations belongs more to a John Handey,...
If one needs a laugh in the last days of the stay-at-home orders, watch Brewster’s Million. The time will be...
The United States has 328 million people. We have some of the most educated and creative minds in the world....
Just a few days before Christmas 2019, Congress, in its 2020 fiscal year appropriations, resurrected from the grave, billions of...
COVID-19 is likely to change forever how we manage our everyday activities. It should also change how we value the...
The President and those running to replace him ignore the nation’s $23 trillion in national debt; $18 trillion of which...
Since the coronavirus hit crisis levels, many writers have predicted how it will permanently change how we live and work....
Present day media cares little about democracy, facts or fairness. Media will do “…whatever is necessary to make the electorate...
This article is not about the 2020 election. It’s about a more serious effort by the Democratic party to permanently...
After the Sanders big primary win in Nevada last week, Democrats are deeply split on a nominee and again, may...
The year is 1433. The last of the ships from the seven voyages of China’s Treasure Fleet, those massive ships...
As impeachment of the President moves to the Senate, both parties assert that members of the opposing party are violating...
Should any American have a property right to a federal job for life? Citizens elect the House of Representatives every...
This series of articles explores options to break the monopoly control of our government by the two major political parties....
Part I of this series describes the two major political parties as possessing monopoly control of our government. Part II...
Part I of this series sets out the fact that Independent and third-party (“third-party (parties)”) candidates only hold 0.0003246% of...
This article is the first in a series of articles addressing the question of how do Americans get control of...
In every presidential election the Republican candidate runs as a conservative promising to reduce the debt and deficit. Democrats run...
The rule of law is a centuries old concept that all members of society, citizens as well as government officials,...
Our Constitution is very clear; Article I grants all legislative powers to Congress and Article II grants the Executive the...
The obvious concerns with the federal government continue: massive debt, a Congress unwilling to be held accountable for declaring war,...
This question was first asked at the Constitutional Convention. While there is the occasional politician who asks it during a...
Since the inception of the New Deal programs in the 1930s to address the Great Depression, the federal government has...
Kakistocracy, a term describing what our government has become: a government controlled by “leaders” who are the least able or...
As the United States begins its 243rd year of independence, Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.) has announced his independence from the Republican...
The federal government is unable to control its printing of money. The nation has accumulated massive debt. Wars have continued...
June 19, 2019, is a day of infamy for advocates of the costly and complex federal regulations to address climate...
Complex societies collapse. Massively indebted nations collapse. Countries with their military deployed throughout the world collapse. Highly regulated states collapse....
A fiduciary is a person who has a duty, created by a voluntary undertaking, to act for the benefit of...
Nothing in our Constitution can be more explicit in intent and meaning than the first sentence which reads: “All legislative...
Insanity, ego, to fill my time, to convince myself I am useful, concerned about the direction of my country, having...