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...

Selling cars with the voice of a serial killer.

I would like to point out that there is one group that is especially deserving of a holiday:  the CBO analysts who have been scoring this bill.  They've been working flat out literally all year, and by this point, they have long ago exhausted any...

Alea iacta est.  I think it very unlikely that the Democrats will be able to retreat from this now--has any major bill ever simply failed in conference? The good is that some people who cannot now acquire insurance will get it; even if this does not...

"A request for a court-ordered promotional scheme".  That's what one judge termed those class actions where you get a coupon good for a future purchase at the company that allegedly screwed you over, while the lawyers get millions of actual dollars. ...

This Fox News story implies that the memo from the CBO means that the bill increases, rather than decreases, the deficit under CBO scoring.  Republicans, emboldened by a new letter from the Congressional Budget Office, accused Democrats on Wednesday...