The recent Supreme Court ruling protecting the First Amendment rights of Americans, even if they are corporations or labor unions, causes many of us to pause to think about the nature of corporations and similar organizational structures. Corporations are merely groups of people.  Corporations have...

Only days after a victory for free speech in the United States comes a major defeat for free speech in Venezuela. Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez forced cable television providers to stop transmitting Radio Caracas Television because the station was not broadcasting his official propaganda messages. Chavez...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently create a surprising and welcome roadblock in the path of those who seek to destroy free speech in the United States.  In a narrow victory for freedom, the judges ruled 5-4 that groups of Americans who organize as corporations and labor unions do not lose their rights...

In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, the productive members of society are crowded out by bureaucrats and politicians until finally the national rail system becomes unsafe to travel upon due to a lack of skilled maintenance personnel. The politicos whine and scream for the system to be fixed, but they...

Game Change, a book about the 2008 Presidential election, is finally being published.  The authors, John Heilemann of New York Magazine and Mark Halperin of Time, have published some amusing stories from their time on the campaign trail. The authors cover the usual Washington sex scandals, of course. ...

A survey of economist by Thomson Reuters estimated that the economy would lose 8,000 jobs in December.  Instead, the economy lost 85,000 jobs last month.  If one of my estimates was off by more than a factor of ten, I would be more than a bit embarrassed.  If I worked as an economist in the private...

In another stunning upset against politically motivated prosecutions at the Justice Department, U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed all charges against five former employees of Blackwater USA. The men were providing close protection services for U.S. diplomats in Iraq when they were ambushed...