Let me tell you a story that dates back to last year’s presidential campaign. Remember this famous moment? In retrospect, the funniest thing about Joe the Plumber’s 15 minutes of fame is that Obama supporters actually attacked the guy because he owed back taxes. Today, if he were a Democrat, he could be Secretary of [...]

In his 1996 State of the Union address, President Clinton famously declared that “the era of big government is over.” Last night, in his first address to Congress (not technically a State of the Union, but close enough for government work), President Obama made it clear that the rumors of Big Government’s death have been [...]

I sent a link to my last post to Namasté Solar, and they emailed me a very polite response. In the interest of fairness, I am reprinting the entire message here: Whether solar energy is worth investing in at the federal level is open to debate.  We welcome this debate.  We would like to provide [...]

Namasté is a Sanskrit greeting popular on the Indian subcontinent. It literally means “I bow to you,” but has been given numerous other translations, such as “the light in me honors the light in you.” The word has had two recent and notable appearances in American popular culture—neither particularly flattering. On the television series Lost, namasté is [...]