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"Autotrader Experts Reveal the Best Certified Pre-Owned Programs".
"Ten Car Parts That Need To Be Totally Redesigned".
"How To Pee In Your Car And Keep Your Pants Dry".
"Ten Videos Every Car Enthusiast Needs To Watch".
"A Porsche enthusiast made a working scale model of his car's engine".
"Here are the 27 must-see cars at the New York Auto Show".
"In Depth: Most Dangerous Times To Drive".
"Formula One Drivers Do Highly Specific Exercises To Keep Death At Bay".
The Washington Post ran the "Republican Nutcase Check List" and the "The Democratic Whackjob Survey". Both are supposed to be questions the party's presidential nominee should answer.
One is heavy on social issues and things that aren't the federal government's business; the other mentions important economic issues and at least touches on our foreign policy. Can you guess which is which?
"Here’s how the Hubble Space Telescope completely changed what we know about the cosmos".
"Unforgettable Hubble Space Telescope Photos".
"The most amazing Hubble Space Telescope fly-through yet defies belief".
"NASA Just Released This Image To Celebrate The Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th Anniversary".
If I were in the California legislature--God forbid--I'd reallocate money from high-speed rail to helping cities and towns retrofit the buildings that still need it in case the Big One comes.
Just sayin'.
It was slow, and very painfully, coming, but at least in this case, justice has prevailed.
I'm just a simple country economist, but this doesn't sound good.
See also "Hey New York, Check Out Calpers" and "New York City's $2.5 Billion Lesson for Investors".
Yet another example of "Baptists and Bootleggers," this time with actual Baptists.
Link courtesy of Ted C.
Noted economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin energetically rebuts the claim that "the American government subsidizes Walmart to the tune of 7.8 billion dollars a year, by issuing food stamps to over one in ten of its workers."
George Will explains why opposition to e-cigarettes is yet another example of this powerful theory.
My modest contribution to the theory is to note that, sometimes, the Baptists and the bootleggers can be the same people. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Clinton Foundation!
. . . is this: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." For insight into American politics I'd put it almost on a par with "Bootleggers and Baptists".
Scott McKay at The American Spectator gives us another example.