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...

Oprah Winfrey has announced that she is ending her show after its 25th season.  You can see why she's doing it:  one of the wealthiest people in America, with $2.6 billion to her name, Ms. Winfrey hardly needs to keep showing up for a job that must be...

Allegedly, Apple is declining to repair Macs owned by smokers on the ground that secondhand smoke is dangerous.  This a gross misunderstanding of the science--theoretically, tobacco tar could be hazardous if applied to your skin, but you'd have to...

Fox News seems to have a real problem with cutting old footage into new stories.  The liberal theory is that this is some sort of concerted conspiracy to imply that 80 million Americans turn out for every Tea Party or Sarah Palin appearance. The...

The Real Problem with vampires.

Shortly after it posted its analysis of the Senate health care bill, the CBO put up a letter to Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) analyzing the House's other health care bill:  the $200+ billion dollar "fix" (aka repeal) of the Sustainable Growth Rate. ...