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toys for tots

July 28, 2009, 4:57PM

I was listening to the radio the other day and heard a story on the Cash for Clunkers program being pushed by the Obama administration as a green initiative. 

Here are important details from that story that don't seem to have made it into the public narrative.  Pay special attention to the table midway down the page on minimum required gas mileage.  I can buy a "large light-duty truck" that gets as little as 15 MPG and if it does at least 2 MPG better than my current "clunker" I get a $4,500 rebate!

That is quite a deal for me and the car dealers, though I fail to see what polar bears or the American people get out of the transaction. 

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children of the corn

July 28, 2009, 11:30AM

With the debate now raging over health care reform, mostly around the current inadequate-to-our-real-needs-but-still-super-expensive legislation that is being considered by our dysfunctional Congress, I thought I would offer a quick aside that has yet to make it into the dialogue in any meaningful fashion but seems an obvious part of any common sense solution - lower health care costs by lowering health care demand.

I am talking about killing King Corn.

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