Attitudes will not change unless people are aware of the problem, and my intent is to make sure as many people as possible are aware of how public unions are destroying the United States just as they destroyed Greece.

Just in case you missed this article in The Hill, the headline will save you from any suspense: Banks to benefit most from White House program to help fight foreclosures.

Unless your “expert” agrees that protecting jobs from non-human competition (that is, technology) is good policy during recessions, he ought to rethink his notion that protecting jobs from human competition is good policy.

A primary conceit of modern bureaucracy is the imposition of strict liability upon the regulated but not the regulators. The bureaucrats demand obedience because of their “expertise,” yet they simultaneously demand perfect knowledge on the part of non-expert individuals who must understand and abide by every rule; after all, ignorance of the law is no excuse. It is not the bureaucrat’s duty to explain, but the citizen’s obligation to know.

The nation’s real ailment comes from having swallowed those entitlement poison pills, not annual budgeting or even financial crises. Yet lawmakers and commentators are not talking about fundamental entitlement reform.

The oft repeated recommendation of the environmental movement that we live more locally, live off the land, live with fewer choices, fewer inputs, fewer resources and fewer possessions would in fact result in devastation not just for human life but for wildlife too. Going back to nature would be a disaster for nature.

The oil industry screwed up by not having enough disaster equipment and ships available. That’s bad beyond words. But for the government to compound that by not allowing needed ships to do the work, just because they did not have US union workers is just as bad. You expect better from government in a disaster, or we should.

The Journal floats a story — I haven’t seen this one in a while — about the “Hindenberg Omen.” Now, I’m open to all manner of data analysis. But when you tell me (toward the end of your story) that … : “The Omen was behind every market crash since 1987, but also has occurred many other times without an ensuing significant downturn. Market analysts said only about 25% of Omen appearances have led to stock-market declines that can be considered crashes,” you have pretty much wasted my time. Wake me up when you find something with an actual correlation — last I checked, 25% isn’t even in coin-flip territory. And where was this indicator prior to the flash crash, or does that not count?