Free Republic

Watching some selected news last night, it struck me that this is the first time that I can remember (or at least, when I cared about politics) that we have a government that is the closest to the Soviet Union's or a banana republic or an African state (am not referring to the color of the new Prez's skin). Am I wrong? When a tax cheat is OK'd by a bi-partisan group of senators - it drove home the fact that there is NO STOPPING the government from doing ANYTHING they want. I may seem naive in my just figuring...

The Bush administration has slapped high duties on Chinese TV sets for the alleged problem of "dumping"—which increasingly means selling at prices lower than sets sold by established firms. Let's leave the issue of dumping for now and examine the claim that jobs are being shipped overseas, which is usually what is said when great foreign products appear in US stores. A number of people have observed that TVs are no longer made in the US. The implication is that at least the Bush administration recognizes a problem. The jobs that used to go into making TVs have effectively been...