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Playing God, 1973-style

In today’s New York Times, a feature story profiles a project to create a national economic planning supercomputer by the socialist government of Salvador…

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The Governor No More?

We ridiculed Eliot Spitzer’s ham-handed tactics when he was still New York state attorney general — his ambition to become governor then plain to…

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TSA Toy Terror

Few federal agencies irritate these days like the Transportation Security Administration, which brought all airline security screening under federal control. Now thanks to…