Recommended reading

• The Wall Street Journal looks at how elections work in India, where politicians promise free stuff to their supporters. It's debatable how much different this is from the US. 

• Robert Samuelson says we have created a suicidal government. 

• Apparently wind power generates significantly less electricity than previously thought. But don't worry, green energy is the future -- Tom Friedman and President Obama told me so. 

• Research shows that redistributionists are a lot angrier than non-redistributionists, and also less likely to donate to charity. Of course, we already knew this. 

• Mark Perry highlights the Megabus effect.