About Your Illegal Yard Sale
One of the things I try to consistently feature here at QandO is the depth of intrusion of the federal government into our daily lives. Talk about “mission creep”. There’s little that we do any more...
View Article“Give ‘Em An Inch …”
To me the UK has become the example of what can happen when you allow the state to begin to usurp liberties in the name of “safety” or “security”. What may first be given over to the state usually...
View ArticleUsing the race card to drive off independents
As the health care debate has raged over the last year, one of the side benefits has been to watch the left make absolute fools of themselves trying to make it all about race. I mean to any impartial...
View ArticleGovernment mandates and the law of unintended consequences
Your “Econ 101” lesson for the day is a lesson politicians never seem to grasp, although they do love to harp on is “greedy corporations” outsourcing “American jobs”. In effect, they play off of free...
View ArticleKrugman’s latest pearls of wisdom
I noted yesterday that one of the more prolific hacks left off of Alex Pareene list (link in previous post) at Salon was Paul Krugman. QandO has a long history of examining Krugman’s political thoughts...
View ArticleI sometimes wonder about our future
Sometimes it’s something which seems minor or trivial that sets this ‘wondering’ of mine in motion. I’ll read an article or short blurb which just makes me shake my head. For instance, from North...
View ArticleFormer SEIU boss: We should emulate Chinese economic model
You can wade through all the trash he throws up there as a preface to his central point, but I’ll save you the trouble. Writing in the WSJ, Andy Stern says: The conservative-preferred, free-market...
View ArticleMarkets vs. central planners … learning the lessons all over again
Here’s how markets work. From Toyota: It said today it will not release its proposed mass-market mini e-car, the eQ. The reason: there’s no demand for it, not while battery technology is failing to...
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