Ever since British Luddites destroyed industrial machinery because it required less human labor, new technologies have been greeted with both wonderment and apprehension.  Liberals are cheering on WikiLeaks for a variety of reasons but this new use of the internet could undermine modern democracies and ultimately lead to new limits being placed on political freedom.  A basic [...]...

Last year, Congressional Democrats and White House economic advisers justified their huge $787 billion spending “stimulus” by asserting that a Keynesian multiplier would boost growth and reduce unemployment.  But, like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, no multiplier has been found.  At 9.5 per cent, U.S. unemployment is higher now than the White House forecast [...]...

SIDESWIPE – AskGavino made some bold predictions about the FIFA World Cup.  How did things work out?  Ghana came within a whisker of being the first African side to ever reach the semi-finals but Gavino was right that no African team would reach the final.  Sunday’s finalists, Spain and the Netherlands, were both in Gavino’s [...]...