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According to this article, Social Security will run a deficit over the next two years, as revenue from workers will fall short of the payments to retirees.  The system is expected to run “surpluses” again in 2012 until 2016, at which time it will run perpetual annual deficits unless Congress fixes it. What made me comment on the article [...]

The other day The Washington Post had an article about the number of empty stores in my neighborhood of DC.  One thing I learned from the story was that there is a zoning law which says that only 25% of the store frontage in the three block area can be zoned for restaurants and bars.  I guess [...]

The blog hotair.com links to a video from the Daily Show, which has host Jon Stewart criticizing the main stream media (MSM) for not uncovering the corruption in many ACORN offices.  (Just think of all real prostitutes and pimps who now are not going to get the proper help they need to evade taxes and import under-age girls [...]

The main argument made by Democrats for health care reform is there are anywhere from 35-50 million people without health insurance.  The Democrats insist the reason for this is insurance costs too much.  Mark Perry at Carpe Diem links to a video from Reason T.V. which punches holes in this argument. It seems to me [...]

I generally disagree with Eugene Robinson around 99% of the time, but his recent column about the California wild fires in the Washington Post was very good one.  I echo his conclusion, though I would have mentioned that errors of these “good ideas” are the result of government intervention: In the end, the least — and, [...]