Why regulation is stoopid.
It’s tempting to believe that government regulation of the Internet would be more consumer-friendly; history and economics suggest otherwise. The reason is simple: a regulated industry has a far larger stake in regulatory decisions than any other group in society. As a result, regulated companies spend lavishly on lobbyists and lawyers [...]

Who could have guessed Tuesday’s turnout!?! OMG, what an unpredictable world we live in! The Socialist Lady and the Endless War guy. Fuuuuuck me. Oh the sweet choices Democracy has laid before us yet again.
If you think I’m being facetious, get yourself a beer.
Say what you will about Ron Paul, the man made a [...]

I’ve always been a little suspicious of home owner zealots that incessantly talk up ownership as miracle investment. Sure there are those who get great deals, and those who do their own renovations, but as Kiplingers points out, the investment is only decent on average. The verdict is still out for me, even though I [...]

Traveling through Greece years ago, I met a Swede who spent his summers partying on the Greek Isles…funded by his government’s unemployment program. What was his disability, you wonder? Like every young and able bodied man, it was simply not wanting to work. So he snookered the system and collected his dough, came to Greece [...]

The ethanol issue is a wonderful example of delusional and self-serving government, pipe dreaming about energy independence.
Economists argue that making ethanol from corn wouldn’t make any sense without the government’s help. The mix of federal and state subsidies to corn ethanol amounted to a conservative estimate of $5 billion to $7 billion in 2006, [...]