Here are more government subsidies to private industry so that it can produce politically-favored products that government desires more than consumers. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu presented Ford Motor Co. with $5.9 billion in loans today to help the automaker develop and manufacture a new generation of fuel-efficient vehicles. “The American innovation machine, when it [...]

An off-duty Chicago police officer convicted of pummeling a female bartender half his size was sentenced Tuesday to two years probation and anger management classes for the videotaped attack that appeared worldwide on the Internet and cable news channels. His sentence? A home curfew and anger management classes. The Judge actually said (hold on): “If [...]

Is there something wrong with this headline on Bloomberg News today? “Obama Gets Drug-Industry Booster With Pledge That Keeps Elderly Medicated.” Here’s a few snippets: The pharmaceutical industry pledge includes $30 billion “that could be used” to provide discounts for medicines, said Reid H. Cherlin, a White House spokesman. That will help narrow a gap [...]

I’ve liked her for a few months now, especially since she nailed Timothy Geithner to the wall while repeatedly asking him what in the Constitution gave the Treasury Department the authority to manage markets and the financial services industry. On that note, check out this story. Try to not laugh at the last paragraph. Outspoken [...]

‘Tis funny how I offended a few folks with this post – especially on Facebook. To hail a book called “I Hate People” is seen as intolerant as well as offensive to someone’s feel-good, made-up, “happy happy” Oprahized world of ignorance. The word “tolerant,” like “judgmental,” is one of the most abused words by those [...]

I think my site will be down much of the next few days while we complete the move to WordPress. The new skins will be up by July 1st.

Another great email from Charles “anarchteacher” Burris on the foundations of socialism. He writes: I would like to call your attention to a virtually unknown little book, The Lost Literature of Socialism, by George Watson, Fellow in English at St. John’s College, Cambridge and editor of the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. As the [...]

Doctors get paid to promote medical devices that will reap companies gobs of $$$$$. Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. says it paid nearly $800,000 over the past three years to a former Army surgeon accused of fabricating a study that reported positive results for one of the company’s key spine products.

Here it comes. More propaganda claiming that disarming Americans will “save” Mexicans from their drug and turf wars: Despite the incomplete data, GAO investigators conclude that the U.S., and in particular the Southwest border states of Texas, California and Arizona, are the source of most weapons trafficked into Mexico. What’s truly remarkable is that the [...]

Obama calls this “a heavy lift.” Mr. Obama confirmed that the overhaul, which he wants to complete this year, includes giving more power to the Federal Reserve to police large, systematically important institutions, allowing the government to break firms apart, implementing new rules for complex instruments and creating a new federal agency to oversee consumer [...]