If you are looking for an archetype of disgusting protectionism — benefiting special interests, pillaging consumers, and impoverishing foreigners — the case of the catfish gets my vote. After communism vanished in Vietnam in the 1990s, entrepreneurs started exporting its catfish. The stuff was so good that it threatened US producers. So in 2003, Congress
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In response to the run-up in oil and gasoline prices, President Obama has chosen to follow a well-worn script — looking for political advantage by pretending to protect voters from the evils of the marketplace. However, his attempt to portray himself as consumer advocate in chief is nothing more than calculated pretense. At a town
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Dear Google: Thank you, for showing us a commitment to your “Universally accessible and useful” motto. When you started out a few years ago, you wanted to provide a medium through which people could find any worthy information they could possibly want on the World Wide Web. You set out to create a search engine
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