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Low Volt Nation 4 Mar 2012 | 08:50 am
The roadkill called the Chevy Volt is what happens when the "wisdom" of planners and social engineers in Washington overrides and overrules the logic of the free market. Shouldn't the lessons it teach...
The Timothy Treadwell Syndrome 2 Mar 2012 | 05:54 pm
Some moderns still retain an instinct for self-preservation. Others apparently do not -- and they think of the natural world as a Disney movie. I have two words for the second class of people: Timothy...
The Republican Race to the Bottom 1 Mar 2012 | 04:27 am
If Obama wins re-election -- and I think the chances of that improve daily without a quick winnowing of the Republican field, followed by a refocusing of Republican fire on the real target, rather tha...
Vikings and RINOs 25 Feb 2012 | 06:44 am
This is why Republicans lack credibility on fiscal issues -- something that's coming to haunt them in this presidential year. Instead of drawing a bold line in the sand against taxpayer-financed pro ...
An Unholy Trinity 27 Jan 2012 | 06:36 am
Watch your back and hold on to your wallet whenever you see industry, government and greens singing off the same sheet music: it's usually the consumers or taxpayers who are about to take it in the sh...
Che What? 15 Jan 2012 | 11:13 am
Luxury automaker Mercedes Benz is apologizing for using the image of Marxist icon and hero Che Guevera in a marketing campaign, but why? Had he lived, Guevera undoubtedly would have found some posh n...
Automakers Make Lousy Social Engineers 14 Jan 2012 | 09:26 am
There's good news and bad news out of Detroit this week. The good news, according to this blog, is that greens and automakers, after decades of being at loggerheads, now seem to be singing from the s...
Adding Insult to Injury 7 Jan 2012 | 03:10 pm
There's only one thing worse than a president buying votes with taxpayer money. That's a president who buys votes he doesn't have to buy with taxpayer money.
Compassionate Capitalism 6 Jan 2012 | 01:38 pm
"Compassionate" capitalists can now showcase their virtue in California by seeking legal standing as a "benefit corporation," which protects against backlash from shareholders cold-hearted enough to a...
Keeping Presidents in their Place 30 Dec 2011 | 07:14 am
This conservatarian recoils when he sees self-styled conservatives playing a game of Job Creation Derby with the president, or with any of the other job destroyers on the Left. In a truly free market ...
