Unbelievable Gall from the New York Times - OpenMarket.org As economists and the Wall Street Journal have noted, the Community Reinvestment Act was an important ingredient of the financial crisis, by pressuring banks to make risky loans to people in low-income, predominantly-minority neighborhoods… Sanford Proposes to Vastly Improve South Carolina’s Business Tax … More

Top 10 Outrageous Earmarks – TIME $2 Million for Children’s Wooden Arrow Makers. The passage of the economic bailout bill in October 2008 was viewed as a necessary evil by many reluctant politicians on both the left and the right, but the subsequent revelation of earmarks legislators stuffed in it… … More

Change We’ve Seen Before – FRC Blog The Washington Post reports today that the very impressive e-mail and cell phone number lists that Obama’s political campaign amassed will now be moving over to the White House to be used as an action arm of the Administration… If Obama Rewrites NAFTA, … More

Podcast of Fairness Doctrine Discussion on Jim Bohannon Show – The Technology Liberation Front Last night, I appeared on the Jim Bohannon radio show for 30 minutes and discussed the past, present, and future of the Fairness Doctrine and broadcast industry regulation in general… A Government Charge of Five Cents … More

Bloated Employee Contracts Push Profligate States into Fiscal Crisis – The Market Center Blog Many state politicians want multi-billion dollar handouts from federal taxpayers. But a superb Wall Street Journal column notes that the real problems are excessive annual spending increases in the short run and extravagant benefits for government … More

If Unions Are So Great, Why Doesn’t the Economy Show It? – InsiderOnline Defenders of unions have a very interesting response to critics of the proposed automaker bailout. The opponents of a bailout, say defenders of unions, want to force the automakers into a chapter 11 restructuring so that they … More

Card Check: Highly Refined Nonsense – Shopfloor.org From a Politico story on the political pressure Senate Democrats face over the anti-democratic Employee Free Choice Act… Slowdown May Affect Green Investment, Says NYT – OpenMarket.org An article today in the New York Times notes that the worldwide economic slowdown may hold … More

Reason Online: Clinton Admin Credited Deregulation for Good 1990s Economy – NewsBusters.org  During the presidential campaign, we constantly heard from Team Obama and the media (excuse the redundancy) was how Republican-inspired deregulation had let evil bankers and capitalists run roughshod over the economy and created the current credit mess… Most … More