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Re: CAFE, the same reasoning can be used for all sorts of government control of the marketplace. It sounds good on paper and in academic circles, but the end-result is the same: the people making the decisions are often wrong, and that ends up distorting the marketplace (i.e., what people actually want and are willing to pay for, in an efficient market). More

I agree that Reagan's ramped up military spending (which increased our national debt more than 300%, by the way. a FAR larger percent increase than Obama) represented the writing on the wall for the hard-line Soviet leaders. They knew the game was lost. But oddly, the US has blindly maintained Reagan's overbudget expenditures as if the Soviet Union More

The famous photographer side of me wants to see Kodak make it just because it's an American icon. The business side of me doesn't see that happening unless they find a buyer for the brand and scrap the losing business. This goes to show how one management decision (to not run with digital) can derail a major company. The same has happened or is happening More

I'll leave that up to you. You appear to be quite learned on it all. I have no place for organized religion in my life, with all it's superstitious mumbo-jumbo; even if it were not rife with the same corruption as most governments and big business today; and it always has been, to the best of my knowledge. But I plead extreme ignorance in all organized More

You seem to have fallen victim to the political feel good analysis. The car tax calculator fires were a result of it's basic design. I'm sure GM will fix it, but it did burn because crystallized coolant shorted the battery. When I break out the calculator to analyze this car (and most other electric vehicles), I find a product that costs more, is less More

Not sure what the cost to the Post Office is to deliver the mountains of junk mail, but I bet it doesn't cover the nut, and it should subsidize first class mail service. The Post Office's first class mail service is very good, and package service not bad, closing in on UPS and FedEx. Perhaps as part of its reoganization, the Post Office can look at More

This article makes me feel like an ingrate. I want to kiss the dirt on the ground. I had a hard life is hard here in America, and was due to react somehow. My ingratitude wasn't inappropriate at the time given the circumstances. Life can suck, even if you're an American. An upward trajectory is a lot to ask for. But since I'm an American, nothing's More

It's a shame that we seem impelled to define our existence by norms and statistics. Its ridiculous that we are predispositioned by society to justify our individual differences, desires, or inclinations. If your only reason for staying together is a legal document, a vow, or a social stigma, your serious relationship is obvioulsy dead, and you are More

Individual liberty, free enterprise and limited constitutional government are bedrock Tea Party principles. Like any decentralized group, there will be those who are also in the social conservative camp (like me). However, the main purpose, the raison d'etre for the Tea Party is how to overcome stage fright restore fiscal sanity to our nation. The More

Perhaps If these credit union loving borrowers were requesting loans from their local community bank, they wouldn't have these problems. Credit Unions were set up decades ago so people without access to credit could buy refrigerators and the like. Now look where it's gone. The local credit union is the largest financial institution in our market, getting More