Helping the free market poison consumers
While California tightens consumer safety laws, banning testes-shriveling chemicals in children’s product, insuring that “California’s kids” will, in the delicate formulation of Will Swaim, “get bigger junk”, the head of the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission is fighting to shrink its proposed budget, so that the agency will remain as [...]

Failing upward, a core Bush value
Right on the heels of the Bush administration making disapproving noises about FEMA’s phony press conference comes news that one of the officials responsible for it has, instead of being fired, gotten a new job– head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. So congratulations [...]