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Do Reporters Even Look At Their Own Charts? 23 Aug 2013 | 09:41 pm
A Wall Street Journal article today looks at problems at Sears in their critical appliance business. I have no problem believing that Sears is in trouble, and at various times over the past decade (f...
Previewing the President's College Rankings 23 Aug 2013 | 03:39 am
Today, President Obama sort-of kind-of acknowledged a problem with Federal college student lending: Federal loans are doing nothing to improve the affordability of colleges, as colleges are just rais...
Police Unions Channel Tony Soprano 23 Aug 2013 | 01:16 am
Their ugly intimidation playbook.
How Can People Say This Stuff With A Straight Face? 22 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
Joane Hayes-White has no shame: San Francisco's fire chief has explicitly banned firefighters from using helmet-mounted video cameras, after images from a battalion chief's Asiana Airlines crash reco...
Arizona's Real Immigration Issue: Californians 22 Aug 2013 | 08:26 pm
Some libertarians, who would normally be all for open immigration, have expressed concern about -- in the name of liberty -- allowing into the country people who will generally vote against it. I hav...
Customer Service Fail 22 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
I called Bank of America to stop payment on a check -- for some reason this seems to be one function that cannot be performed online. I got right through to their business banking number. However, t...
Further Proving the Point of Modern Journalism is To Generate Clicks, And Not Necessarily to Be Accurate 21 Aug 2013 | 10:51 pm
I don't like tribal red-blue politics, but I read a couple of blogs both from team elephant and team donkey to at least make sure I am not living in a libertarian echo chamber. From that I know that ...
Obama's "Nixon Goes to China" Moment 21 Aug 2013 | 12:07 pm
Barack Obama is the worst possible thing that could have happened for civil liberties in this country. Not necessarily because he promotes the worst possible policies -- As bad as he has been (drone ...
Government Intrusion A-OK at the Guardian When It Was Aimed At Their Competitors 21 Aug 2013 | 11:48 am
From Brendan O'Neill via JD Tuccille If there was a Nobel Prize for Double Standards, Britain’s chattering classes would win it every year. This year, following their expressions of spittle-flecked o...
They Buried the Lede 20 Aug 2013 | 10:49 pm
I thought the more interesting part of this story was the prisoners in Missouri were reading the Economist