Archive for February 2nd, 2010

This is a little off topic for me, but the recent Supreme Court decision defending corporate ‘freedom of speech’ is something worth commenting upon because it is based upon a free market doctrine drawn from economics.
The decision was in a case called Citizens United v. The Federal Election commission. By a five to four majority… »

Everyone, it seems, is now alert to the state of the federal budget. Apparently we are drowning in a sea of red ink, and, according to some, the deficit presages the decline of American influence and power.
I don’t see it that way. Our decline, if there is any, has a very different source.

We have had… »