Beldar on Obamacare’s cognitive dissonance: Flacks for the Obama Administration, including many lefty lawyers and law professors, would love to persuade you, the people, that they’re entitled to rely on one part of the Constitution, the taxing and spending clause, as a justification for Obamacare while they’re arguing in the federal courts over its constitutionality, […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Colorado’s Democrats like to make a big deal out of the state not being able to issue debt (even as they do everything possible to get around the restriction).\u00a0 They’ll point to a low overall debt-to-GDP level, nominally 4.9%.\u00a0 Once you adjust for pensions and other unfunded liabilities, we’re not in such good shape.\u00a0 At […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Via Donald Marron: The trick is finding those matches and extending them to larger groups.\u00a0Today\u2019s New York Times has a moving article that illustrates how far this idea has come. Kevin Sack recounts\u00a0how the 60 people shown above were linked through a chain of 30 kidney transplants thanks to the efforts of Garet Hil and […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

From Russ Roberts at Cafe Hayek: The Fishtown folk at the top of the graph have never attended college. The Belmont people at the bottom have at least a bachelor\u2019s degree. On average, the Fishtown folk are poor. The Belmont folk are much richer. If the poorest people have the highest divorce rates, the increase […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

From the Money Illusion: Starting in 2003, Germany under then-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder began to implement a program of long-term structural reform called \u201cAgenda 2010.\u201d The idea was to transform Germany into an economy where business has an incentive to invest, and where labor has an incentive\u2014and an opportunity\u2014to work. This was pro-growth reform that would […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Natural gas, that’s who.\u00a0 With one of the all-time best wind power images. Mark Perry has the chart:<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n