The free market solution is for Fox viewers to become the majority and for the other imbeciles to be forced to compete with them. I hope I live long enough to see it happen.

I'm not a regular listener but when I've heard Rush etc I've never heard them say things I didn't agree with, however, I've spoken to tons of people who took things they said either out of context or just plain wrong and I think, while there will always be stupid people and misunderstandings, they all ultimatley have to get listeners so being sensational and devisive is part of the game...its also part of the game in MSM but that gets overlooked. If Marco Rubio is as good as I think he is I bet they won't be able to kill him as Luntz suggests.

Arthur Brooks in WSJ today. Same point. I heard Paul Ryan say he was for entitlement reform because he wanted it sustained and available but clearly that message was not harped upon and made believable. People who would make sacrifices in the name of keeping the ocean level from rising an extra half inch in 50 years seem have no concept of social security and medicare being unvailable in 20years.  

Its just my opinion based on the tiny ammount of this information I can gleen before nausea sets in, but, I believe he is on a campaign to show those of us ignorant enough to still believe in the relative unimportance of government versus the private sector that we are wrong and he can do this best by showing us what real chaos ensues when we get our wish of tiny cuts in government spending. Because this is born out of deep ideology and also happens to be the only thing he knows how to do which is campaign. I believe it will happen just as he wants it to. Someone on Bloomberg radio this morning said that hapless Republican Congressmen like Scott Rigel of Newport News are attempting to craft a compromise that will give the President flexibility...yes, and those are all ethnic Germans seeking freedom in the Sudetenland.

Alas, I fear that all regions are becoming more homogeneous as we gain mobility and our children hear as much from television etc as they do from us and those of our accented ilk. However, the Republican opportunity is there and I think it is there if we can speak to a more ethnically diverse segment of the population especially small businesses. Unfortunately a huge portion of the African American population remembers the Democratic party as though it began with Hubert Humphrey and LBJ and they do not think of that crowd as having done them harm.  

I would advise your HS student to listen to every podcast on econtalk.org including the interview of Krugman since unlike Krugman, Russ Roberts is judicious, even handed, and intellectually honest.

I like Paul Kedrosky's tech commentary most of the time but wow, if this isn't a classic god of the copybook heading comment I cannot imagine one. My city is here and I live in it because it contains the blood of my ancestors and their ghosts...lets rip it all down because we don't need the river anymore? Are you kidding? If my kid sinks his canoe in the river a fireman rescues him. I don't care if he is called the dog catcher but I happen to know he has the tools and the expertise to save my kid and we call him a fireman. Sure lets tell them to scrap entitlements because they're out moded and out dated but lets understand that Russell Kirk is rolling in his grave, to say nothing of Burke and the others he championed.

I wonder if there are fewer people out there willing or interested in reading about someone like Warren and his wife or if those people are just as numerous or small as they ever were but more capable now of obtaining information like that from less mass market sources. So People's audience might be dumber but that might not be true of the entire culture...or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.

I was looking at a local ad supported magazine that somebody left in our office and it showed the "big" event of 2012 in Richmond. One that they devoted substantial photography to was some sort of abortion rally at the state capital that was, I think in hindsight, designed expressly to energize that segment who care about these things. I paid no attention while it was going on but there is no doubt in my mind now that these events were manufactured by the left using social media to energize the base and get them to turn out for the big leftist event in November. It also got their minds off the "real" issue which was the economy and our fiscal profligacy.

I hate to be a grumpy old man but...well actually I like it and this is one of the few places I still can be so... I get t he creativity and all but when my boys play too much Xbox or wii they have to stop. Period. One reason they have to live with discipline is so this sort of thing doesn't happen when they get older. If they whine and cry about int they get punished for that but they don't probably because they know it doesn't work. Just so you know I'm not a Luddite. I agree with Geo. Gilder in life after television and I'm sure kids gain some benefits from playing but they can also be a gigantic waste of time. I am happy the Cinese are also having the problem. We should make them all do judo like the Japanese...:)

I dare say the University as we know it is going extinct and good riddance. The invaluable exposure to bookish people will persist. A young woman of my acquaintance recently told me of an American History Class taught by a newly minted Phd. from Yale who was standing in for an older, well regarded fellow on sabbatical. This took place at a very well regarded, private college. The Yalie was all about victimology, openly gay, dismissive of the elitist attitude of the mostly well-to-do, mostly white students. The offenses of the Oppressor Class was all this bloody jackanapes could teach them and so nobody signed up for any of his classes in the coming semester. Hallelujah! More disciple of this sort is not a bad thing.

A Texan friend insisted Richard Fisher would've replaced Bernanke at the Fed so if I couldn't put him at Tresury then John Taylor ... Or vice versa. Makes me sick to speculate on what will not be.

I love Paul Johnson's work but let's not forget his support for Ros Perot. I guess we'd have avoided all this if little squeaky had won in '92. Before we become too enamored with China everyone should speak with my friend who was born there. Their GDP will grow but they have a long way to go and they may not get there at all. That is my fear as Jeff Richter alludes to. We may recede and leave no else around. We chide the Euro-weenies for not defending themselves but would we feel better if they all had standing armies? How about Japan?

In the late '80s I traded my Epson 8088 for a new Compaq System 3 "portable" computer. They both ran something called Microsoft Smart that contained word processor, spread sheet and data base management capabilites...it was like carrying around a small tv set... no it was heavier and more bulky than that.

Andy Kessler's book _The End of Medicine_ is an interesting investigation of the same topics. Will testing become so convenient and ubiquitous that we are able to manage our own health better? I expect Obamacare to accelerate a process toward more of the rich who can affored it and something else for the masses...ironicly, but not unsurprsingly, those who demagoge about the rich wind up hurting the poor. It will become ever more like FedEx and the Post Office.

When George Will is on he is really wonderful. No one strings together nouns and verbs with malice aforethought quite so well. The whole business about scaring women over birth control is also spot on. I cannot imagine any woman with a grain of sense falling for it....and yet some do alas.