Ain’t no free lunch, from Thomas Sowell, RCP:
Once you buy the idea that the government should be a sort of year-around Santa Claus, you have bought the kinds of consequences that follow.
The results are not pretty,
When Senator Levin says “Goldman made a lot of money by betting against the mortgage market” what do we think he might have meant? Knowing some of the political philosophy of the esteemed senator from Michigan, it is obvious that
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Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.
This is the “Yet Another Truck Stop” Edition
That’s two Truck Stops in as many weeks, I know. I’m not sure what
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Arthur Brooks, at The Wall Street Journal suggests that there’s a bit of a culture war going on about the future of capitalism. The headline suggests that “The Real Culture War Is Over Capitalism “
There is a major cultural
OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with
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I can’t say that I’m sorry at all to see a new Quinnipiac University poll, that reports Chris Dodd is in even more serious electoral trouble than we thought before:
A total of 42 percent of voters say they