Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Hermann Goering is laughing.

In recent years, the dream of home ownership has gotten farther and farther out of reach, as house prices have escalated. According to a recent study, the primary cause is excessive zoning laws - that is, government over-regulation.

Inspecting IDs is a waste of time and money, but it's ideal from the bureaucratic point of view because it doesn't solve the problem.

China and India are adopting personal automobiles. If they follow our path, each country will put itself in a position of its entire economy being vulnerable to interruption of its oil supplies.

Now comes what may be the solution to the global warming hysteria, and from a most unexpected source.

Bureaucracies never die, and India's still uses genuine red tape.

"It is the duty of every officer of His Majesty's Navy, to discharge powder and shot in the general direction of the enemy."

The only real reason that ethanol finds its way into our gas tanks, is the one we know to look for whenever something stupid is going on - government interference.

Brazil serves as an object lesson in how government incompetence - not greed, not really bribery even, certainly not totalitarianism, just simple incompetence - can make life difficult on an otherwise free and vibrant economy.