Mark Zuckerberg recently confessed to a program of censorship on Facebook. But that program remains, and he hasn't lifted it.
FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) actually has money it can't or won't spend, which could address its budget deficit.
Consolidation has produced a relative handful of companies that control vast food brands and chains. Mass media consolidation is similar.
The Chicago Police Department has never gotten a handle on misconduct by its own officers that costs millions in court judgments.
Policymakers now confront a stark reality - they were never going to make dispatchable generation (power plants) obsolete.
In 2010 the federal government spent a million dollars putting poems up for zoo visitors to read in five big-city zoos.
A forensic analyst in Colorado drew hundreds of thousands in salary for substandard work that imperils 652 criminal cases.
Green energy subsidies do not work, except to steer money toward unscrupulous system gamers and rob society of needed energy.
Los Angeles has left 17.5 of its jobs open, and workers are eating up the savings by working overtime and raking it in.
Big Game Forever took $5.1 million from Utah and paid off its founder, the founder's family, and other kickback recipients.