Successful government program? No - Cash for Clunkers is a monument to government stupidity and economic illiteracy.

There are ways to improve health care efficiency. More government control is not one of them.

Did Prof Gates have half a point after all?

Paying out for people who don't pay in is bad for the exchequer.

Why must the Federal government run everything?

Health care rationing is coming - people will wait for care until some of them die.

If something can't continue... it won't.

Civil rights are not automatic, like natural human rights - you have to agree to the social compact in order to deserve them.

But not Mickey Mouse or Harry Potter. Why not?

Of patents, copyrights, and the balance of power.