Recommended reading

• Mounting problems in California with high-speed rail and green energy plans the LA Times calls "wildly impractical" that have cost the taxpayers millions. These people are just zealots, plodding ahead with their faith-based green schemes without regard for facts.

• Paul Krugman, wrong again. 

• The recently moved -- and I think improved -- Freakonomics blog points out how regulation of NYC taxis hurts the environment. 

• The welfare state at work: "No one gets married any more mister."

• Evidence the New York Times is starting to wake up and smell the coffee on unions?