UN Chief Notices that Food Costs Money

The cause of hunger in the world is not a lack of food but poverty. Poverty is a consequence of dysfunctional economies suffering under corruption, dictatorships, and fascism. The same factors that contribute to poverty also contribute to global insecurity that drives up energy prices.

You want to drive down food prices? Then create conditions that […]

Taxation Without Representation

Pro-tax politicians want to change this by allowing California to force Amazon to collect and submit sales taxes–and they may have found an ally in a U.S. Congress that’s controlled by Democrats.

[From Tax-free Internet shopping days could be numbered | Tech news blog - CNET News.com]

States complain that they are entitled […]

Traffic Cameras for Profit

This is why I am skeptical of any “public safety” argument when it comes to red light cameras. There is no evidence despite repeated studies that traffic cameras make intersections any safer, yet there is ample evidence to suggest that cities other motives for installing them.

Six U.S. cities have been found guilty of […]

Potomac Two Step

Protecting the Internet from a terrorist hijacking can’t be done by government alone, he said. The homeland security chief called on Silicon Valley to send some of its “best and brightest” to Washington to work on the effort. [From Security chief calls on valley expertise for cyber-defense - San Jose Mercury News]

If […]

Tax Policy in Competitive Markets

Billary has proposed a set of tax proposals aimed at encouraging U.S. job creation and stemming the tide of job losses to offshore manufacturing. I certainly don’t have a problem with expanding tax credits for R&D but the problem that exists with all of these programs today, including the much talked about R&D tax credit, […]

Tort Reform Coming?

So this is how you get tort reform through Congress… cite frivolous lawsuits by investment banks and private equity firms. It will be interesting to see if the trial lawyers will role out their usual arguments against reform which state chapter and verse that rights get denied and the “little guy” is oppressed.

“Many […]

Protest Focus

The protesters were complaining about fee hikes, the use of the SAT exam in student admissions, UC management of nuclear-weapons laboratories and what they called the university’s lack of diversity.[From UC protesters chain themselves to doors at regents meeting]

This is exactly why modern day protests have zero impact on public opinion and public […]

Evolution of Security: Apple MacBook Airs are Cleared for Takeoff

Couple of interesting things about that story of the MacBook Air owner who got stopped at an airport security checkpoint. First and foremost, TSA was doing it’s job, which is to single out things that don’t fit a known profile, which the Air certainly does not. Second, this story got so much attention because their […]

Núñez’s bill taxing oil companies falls short

For Democrats in California the solution always involves raising taxes and fees. Never do they consider slowing the growth of state government, spending more efficiently, and not doing things the government shouldn’t be doing anyway. BTW, whenever Núñez and his pals talk about “the wealthy” he is referring to you and me… combined family income […]

Good Government

Here’s just one more reason why government should stay out of the business of providing services. If SF sunk these turbines in the Bay it is estimated, by the study that SF itself commissioned, that the cost per megawatt hour would be as much as eleven and a half times higher than PG&E’s retail electricity […]

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