In a particularly cruel violation of the 5th and 14th Amendment’s protections against deprivation of property without due process of law, a Minnesota Police Chief has made himself judge, jury and executioner in the case of a 5-year old boy’s pet chicken. He claims that the animal violates a city ordinance against “fowls”. Aside from […]

Government shutting down. National debt exploding. Default looming. Genetically modified food is poisoning us. The government can’t even run a website. There’s an island of garbage floating in the Pacific and nobody smart enough to exploit it. Syrians at war because Bashar Assad can serve until 2014 under the new constitution. Hives are collapsing. The […]

When Wal-Mart has a shortage of shopping carts, I’d call it a good sign for consumer spending. That’s all for now.

In the latest effort by the Obama administration to continue the worst policies of the Bush administration, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced increased tariffs on Chinese tires of an extra 35 percent in the first year, 30 percent in the second, and 25 percent in the third. The Bush steel tariffs of 2002 […]

Every once in a while we get a stark example of how markets are simply much more efficient than government. The latest example: While Congress is being slammed for planning to spend $550 million for a handful of new jets, including $66 million a piece for three Gulfstream G550s with a sticker price of $49 […]

I used to like Jackson Browne back when he was still putting out good music… In sixty-nine he was twenty one and called the road his own… Lately the tired old liberal is out of creativity with nothing better to do than file frivolous lawsuits… I don’t know when that road turned into the road […]