One defense people make for big government is that it serves as a counterweight to big business.  Unfortunately, the last tax-payer bailout of the automobile and bank industries gives little support to that argument.  What’s more, recent revelations in Luke Harding’s new book, T

I came across an interesting statistic about newspapers the other day.  Even in their current moribund condition, newspapers in their print and digital formats are still read by about 75 percent of the adult population. (“The Only Game in Town,” by David Sirota, Harper