Oh come onnnnnnn...nobody has done more for the poor and oppressed than David Wu. Isn't it disgusting how conservatives pile on whenever a liberal politician suffers from kleptomania or pediphilia? These poor souls need compassion and a lifetime pass to a congressional seat, not over-the-top criticism.

Stop single-motherhood by cutting off its oxygen--welfare.

I am an American citizen by birth, of European ancestry. I make a good living programming computers at NASA for a consulting firm based in India. Why did they hire me, even though I have no security clearance?

Because it was cheaper for them to send me to NASA than it was to send a programmer from India. As India prospers from offshoring off of America, its programmers demand more money. That makes Americans like me more competitive.

Free trade not only makes American consumers better off, but American workers like me as well.

One more point: Before aggressively carving out empires during World War II, both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan cited a lack of markets to rationalize their aggressive behavior. ...

Government is wonderful at forcing particular objectives, but is hopeless clumsy when it comes to trade-offs.

It's easy for government to create gross jobs--just spend money on things that require labor, or just hire someone to do nothing. But that taxing and borrowing crowds out private investment--a trade-off--that means less hiring in that part of the economy. The net is fewer total jobs created.

So it's best that government do nothing, just as it's best that a linebacker not remove that speck from your eye--your nimble aunt would do better.

Another example of the common property being managed without Govzilla can be seen in our backyard--standalone churches.

My Missouri Synod church has 3 pastors, but building maintenance, cash management, and numerous other church operations are done freely by members. Rules are few, because the members are bonded by common religious fervor.

People have plenty of opportunity to "free-ride", but they choose to produce more than consume.

She is one of the philosophical founts of modern free-market thinking.

Until circa 1950, being black meant almost certainly doing hard physical labor your whole life. There are far more opportunities for blacks today, but the cultural norm that stronger and faster is better lingers (the opportunity to make $millions also helps).

Some might mention that blacks must be intrinsically better at basketball, but basketball and gymnastics utilize much the same skills, but there are hardly any black gymnists.

Other sports that were long thought the province of whites, such as chess, tennis, and golf, have blacks as among their premier players. Three of the last 4 Super Bowls feature black head coaches.

Government running health care is like Bruno the mover performing eye surgery.

Government can force specific outcomes, and socialized health care may improve specific aspects of it. But government is notoriously bad at managing tradeoffs, which means overall medicine would get worse. Health care should be left to the more nimble private sector.

Cash for Clunkers is a perfect example of government-as-lummox at work. Uncle Sam forced a particular outcome--people driving more fuel-efficient cars--regardless of the negative tradeoffs affecting the rest of the economy.

One more lummox metaphor: Government was extremely slow in getting payments to car dealers. The fleet private sector would have done better.

The housing market is so complex that no one person understands it (if anyone did, she'd be a trillionaire). So why is a fat-fingered institution meddling in such a delicate phenomenon?

But fear not--treasury rates minus mortgage rates is rising, as people perceive the institutional risk of lending to government as getting worse. The social engineers are running out of cash.