Now even Donald Luskin is sounding apocalyptic. Normally he’s a cheerful, optimistic sort of fellow when it comes to capitalism and the American economy. But after watching the new administration’s ineffectual and damaging responses to the economic crisis, Mr. Luskin offers the opinion that this...

The Financial Times — not known as a wild-eyed raving loonie rag — has a sobering analysis of the financial crisis, and what lies ahead, both in the USA and abroad. Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fausta, GL-T, Insubria, JD, LL, Tuan Jim, VH, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Headlines and art...

The most interesting of tonight’s news articles concerns the “Facebook invasion� by zealous mujahideen. It has been my repeated contention that in the art of information warfare the enemy remains far ahead of us. This story is yet another example of that fact: while we excommunicate one anothe...