SO DAMN MUCH MONEY The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government By Robert G. Kaiser Knopf. 398 pp. $27.95 "Earmarks" and "pork" have become rallying cries against the failures of our government. The Office of Management and Budget, defining an earmark as spending that members ......

The purpose of regulation is to crime prevention. Businesses have spent the last generation either ignoring or pretending to ignore this. Businesses must, by their very nature, skate close to the edge of the law. Those who skate closest without crossing over have a big advantage. So regulation exist...