I'm on vacation this week, so blogging will be light.  GM will have to have its death throes largely without me. But I do want to point to two articles that point to a growing problem that the Obama administration has failed to address in a...

As in, using the word "fascist" to apply to the current, or indeed previous, administration.? David Henderson writes: President Obama has done something far more serious. He has already, in less than 100 days, moved the U.S. economy further towards ...

Perhaps predictibly, Ayn Rand is making a comeback on the right, with Congressmen handing out her books, and loose talk of rich people "Going Galt".? I don't think that we will see a mass exodus of productive people to secret hideouts.? I look to A...

I don't know quite what to say about the Bush administration's midnight regulations allowing healthcare workers to exercise their "conscience", or the Obama administration's rapid undoing of same,...

A lot of brilliant thinkers in one room, faced with a very uncertain situation, are likely to disagree with each other.? And fight for power/their ideas.? It's already started with Obama's...

Bruce Bartlett argues that reading the health care bill is a waste of time.  Not only is it all written in legalese, but also, many of the provisions simply alter sections of other bills, so unless you have some sort of hyperlinked database, much of...

Well, that's a bit of an oopsie: The FBI and the military investigated contacts between an Army psychiatrist accused of last week's deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood and a Yemen-based militant over the past year but concluded he didn't pose...

Did Obama bring criticism for the state of the job market upon himself?  After all, he promised his stimulus package was going to create or save millions of jobs. Eh, I'm underwhelmed.  Bush made similar claims about the powers of his tax cuts. ...

I often enjoy Charles Blow's By the Numbers blog at the New York Times, but I think this op-ed from last Friday was a little over the top: Right now," "immediate economic emergency," "requires urgent action," "can't wait." Wow! He gave the impression...

So the House passed a landmark health care bill, and everyone's trying to figure out what it all means.  Is passage of a substantial reform now near-inevitable, as the White House seems to be claiming?  Or was this the peak, as the Republicans...