Companies are falling one by one. Banks, car manufacturers, insurers. Bankruptcies, bailouts, executives who ground their corporations into the dirt are getting millions in bonuses and, instead of being jailed, retiring to Bahamas.People are frustrated and angry. But to my greatest surprise, the anger is directer towards completely wrong targets. Americans are blaming Republicans, immigrants, Democrats, executives, Obama, Chinese, Bush, and the wrong phase of the moon. It is nonsense.We need ... Read Full Story

Have you ever wondered why communist countries failed, or, at least, have had serious trouble making ends meet (with an exception of China1)? Some will say it's due to the brilliant policies of the Saint Reagan, others will expound the inner evilness of totalitarian regimes. But the truth is much more prosaic: in communism there is no direct incentive to care. To care about anything, but most of all, there is no direct incentive to care about the work one is supposed to do. Everything is owne... Read Full Story

Welcome to the June 21, 2008 edition of carnival of political solutions. The submissions are, as always, excellent, however, we still have a number of off-topic articles (either not solutions, or not political). I have not included those, even though they were very nice postings.Edmund Ross presents href="http://www.politicalbull.net/article-00052.html">So what are you going to do when gas hits $12/gallon?> posted at href="http://www.politicalbull.net">Political Bull>.Kurt Yordy presents d... Read Full Story

Welcome to the May 20, 2008 edition of carnival of political solutions. This edition brought once again a lot of excellent posts, many from our regular contributors. Unfortunately, many were off-topic, and as such, not included in this carnival.Lets start with 30 years old, but still relevant article on American Spirit entitled Have we Forgotten of Clyde W. Kirkman posted at Fred Black's Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..Jeffrey Stingerstein presents 'in vitro meat', a -- still hypothetical... Read Full Story

In a few days the Congress is going to vote on the $300 billion Farm Bill. Its passage is pretty much assured, however, there is still hope that president Bush would veto it, as he should.The bill contains a significant number of provisions, all of them either wasteful, harmful or downright scandalous. Yes, scandalous! How else can you call a provision, added by the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, that gives tax breaks to the owners of the race horses? How do they dare to create taxpa... Read Full Story

I have never thought it would come to this, but I actually agree with president Bush. He threatens to veto the new "housing rescue" bill, and I can't hope enough he will actually do it.The House of Representatives must share Hillary Clinton's opinion on economists and other "elite" specialists: "who needs thinking if we can get votes". And what is the easiest way of getting votes if not giving one group of people money squeezed from another group?In particular, two of the bill's provisions ... Read Full Story

"I'm not going to put my lot in with economists," Hillary Clinton said when asked which economist thinks her proposal is sane. Then she declared that the "elite opinion" of specialists in their fields is somehow harmful to the "vast majority of Americans." This is scary. A presidential candidate, who dismisses educated advice in favor of wishful thinking is really going to make mess out of our country. Didn't we learn something in the last 8 years!? "Cakewalk", "they will greet us with flower... Read Full Story

I am not much of a conspiracy theory buff. I do not believe in UFO hold at Area 51, and I laugh at people who tell me that the CIA did in JFK. But today a headline caught my eye: "Police: D.C. Madam killed herself..." I have looked more closely: it was an article form AP written by Mitch Stacy. I read it, and I could not believe my eyes.Specifically, the following comment just blew my mind away: "... making good on her vow never to go to prison for running a high-end Washington prostitution r... Read Full Story

I have started to construct a Political Game site. It is - basically - a quiz site, where questions are related to politics, and more often than not are quite not obvious. It is intended as an "edu-tainment" site, where one can find amusement as well as hard facts.The name of this site is "The Game" and the address http://thegame.exofire.net.Any comments are most welcome! Read Full Story

Welcome to the April 20, 2008 edition of carnival of political solutions.Apparently we are in a great need for some solution: the number of submissions to this carnival is truly astonishing.Sagar presents a full-of-hope economic forecast for the presidency Barack Obama in 10 Surprising Economic Implications of a Barack Obama Presidency posted at Currency Trading.net.Jeffrey Stingerstein presents his opinion on the issue of abortion in Abortion (a secular response to Richard Dawkins), Part Fou... Read Full Story