San Francisco is known as the center of lunacy for the Left Coast, but this one takes the cake. It seems that homeless people are everywhere in that city. Of course, the folks there blame the federal government for not curing them. San Franciscans would never think of blaming themselves, since they have passed all sorts of laws from rent
Today, June 10, I was a guest on two radio talk shows in which I defended Martha Stewart. In one case (KTSA, San Antonio), I was a lone guest and the interviewer, too, believed the charges were ridiculous, so it was a friendly time. In the other situation (KCNN, Kansas City), I was paired with a former federal prosecutor, and it was more
Paul Krugman is right to complain about government influence over the mediase via regulation, but suggests that outright government ownership would improve matters: “because the networks aren’t government-owned, they aren’t subject to the kind of scrutiny faced by the BBC, which must take care not to seem like a tool of the ruling party.” Yes,
While Ann Coulter has driven me nuts lately with her support of the war in Iraq and her shilling for George Bush, I think she does a wonderful job here skewering the New York Times for its recent scandal with Jayson Blair. Howell Raines is one of those nuisances for which there is no
New York authorities have found how to close the city’s budget deficit: cite business owners whose awnings have “too many words.” Although most economists champion the role of government in the economy, I think this article shows once again that government basically is a mafia-structured organization that shakes down people. At least Mafia
Paul Krugman names the enemy that shut out the lights: deregulation. Under the old system, he says, it was easy to keep the system going and upgraded because power companies “would catch the flak if something went wrong” (funny how that incentive didn’t work in the Soviet Union). But deregulation took away the incentive to keep the system
Anyone who might believe that the Washington Times is a friend of free markets and free trade should read this editorial produced today (August 21) on the steel tariffs. The basis of the editorial is that we need to keep the tariffs because 45,000 steel workers lost their jobs. I remember reading where the cost of each job “saved” was more than
Paul Krugman , who is partly right here, once again tells us of the horrible evils of private enterprise. It seems that the food and water for U.S. troops in Iraq is both bad and in short supply. Krugman, no doubt a future Nobel Prize winner in economics, tells us the reason: privatization. Yes, there is much about this war that needs
Obviously, Paul Krugman would hold that the problem here is that there is not enough socialism. Maybe the Brits have cut taxes too much.
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