It was all the way back 1882
when Mark Twain famously wrote, "Suppose you were an idiot and
suppose you were a member of Congress—but I repeat myself." So it's
not terribly surprising to find out that, 100-odd years later, on a
major issue like health care, neither side of the aisle really
knows exactly what it's talking about—something that becomes even
more obvious during seven hours of forced TV-yammering.

Letter in Today's WSJ: ·        LETTERS ·        FEBRUARY 23, 2010 Our Shortage of Jobs Isn't From a Lack of Spending In "Voters to Democrats: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" (op-ed, Feb. 19), former President Bill Clinton's pollster Doug Schoen writes: "Let's be...

John Cochran

Congress decreed that gold and silver dollars should be interchangeable and put upon the Treasury a mandate to keep them equal in value. How? By what magic? Why, by the magic of a phrase. FULL ARTICLE by Garet Garrett...

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Last week I wrote:
Full-out patent war against an equally matched competitor means mutually assured destruction … so large companies inevitably settle and use their patents to keep new innovators out.
As if to prove my point, Fortune quotes Oppenheimer’s Yair Reiner who says that is exactly what is happening:

Nancy Pelosi may be convinced that we have to pass health care
reform in order to find out what's in it, but if it passes, there's
at least one provision we can already count on: an individual
mandate to buy health insurance.

By David Rittgers

The
Cayman Island Sea Turtle Farm was established by entrepreneur and
libertarian hero Antony Fisher in 1968. Unfortunately, the farm
went bankrupt when the trade in sea turtle products was banned
internationally. Now a government-owned corporation, the farm is a
huge tourist attraction supplying turtle meat to the local market;
it also releases thousands of turtles into the wild. Aware of the
vexed history of the farm, Reason Science Correspondent
Ronald Bailey traveled to the Cayman Islands to discover just how
tasty sea turtle can be.

By Julian SanchezSen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has just fired off a letter to Barack Obama urging him to finally appoint some members to the long-vacant Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, echoing a similar recent request from a coalition of civil liberties groups.