The Tropicana Casino & Resort in Atlantic City is in deep doo-doo (does anybody go to Atlantic City anymore?); Home Depot starts its slide downward; and Target can’t collect on its credit card loans. So Target is tightening its lending standards (yea, right) and trying to sell its receivables, which these retailers typically do for [...]

American Axle needs to close some plants in order to become a leaner, more competitive business for future years. Ron Gettlefinger, chief of the UAW mob, has called this “an insult.” In fact, he has even taken to calling the company “Mexico Axle.” That private businesses cannot open, run, or close their plants as they [...]

I am down to 830 emails and hope to be at 400 or less by day’s end. Sorting out my persistent email dilemma will go a long way in getting things in order and being more responsive in the future. You see, I tore a hamstring yesterday, and I have been in dire pain since [...]

A lot of people write me and say, “Hey, I really like your blog, but you need to open up your comments.” I address it again because many people bring this up. Against my better judgment, I opened up comments for one week in 2002. Big mistake. A lot of people like to criticize, compliment, [...]

Simply put, here’s the quick answer for those of you who don’t get it concerning Matt Welch’s short-but-mischievous reign at Reason magazine (italics are mine): I believe that Reason has become overly obsessed with its conception of itself as “the most influential libertarian publication in America”. This has led the editors at Reason to grant [...]

This is a fascinating look at Camacari – one of the most advanced auto assembly plants in the world. Its system of supplier integration makes it perhaps the “leanest” plant in the world. Why will there never be any plants like this in the US? Because union thugs run Ford’s business in the US and [...]

A 3-year-old Detroiter with a 20-piece, custom drum set, who jams with famous session players and assorted musicians. Julian Pavone started drumming at the age of three months, landed his first contract gig at 15 months old, and has played at the House of Blues. I watched the videos of him drumming (“Brickhouse” and “Smoke [...]

And I think I may have found a prosecutor that I like. Wait … before you send me that angry email. I think it’s a bad strategy, and often a statist one, to always be dissing lawyers as shysters and no-gooders and such. Plus we always hear that there are too many lawyers. True, the [...]

I blog about Reason magazine here. Some good, some bad, and much to be perplexed over. Keith Halderman has his own opinion on this thing over at the History News Network blog. When I first became a libertarian back in the late 1980s I used to love Reason Magazine. On the day an issue appeared [...]

Insanity here is defined as $542,000, a blast-resistant body, rotating roof hatch, ten gun ports, a battering ram, a video camera with night vision, and the capability to go 75mph. Perhaps the most amazing thing is that the local media justified this massive monster because, a couple of weeks ago, there was a standoff in [...]