Clearly, Bill Gates is not paying his fair share to private sector innovators. Quick, somebody pass a law! It’s regularly been pointed out that the average compensation—that includes pay and benefits—for federal workers is now double the private sector average. Defenders of federal employees have routinely insisted that this is an unfair comparison. Well, Andrew Biggs, the former Social Security Administration deputy commissioner for policy and American Enterprise Insititute Scholar,

Zero Hedge’s Tyler Durden offers a sharp gloss on a WSJ’s piece on the MF Global Bankruptcy: On the three month bankruptcy anniversary of the company whose rehypothecation gimmicks will one day be seen as a harbinger of everything that is broken with the multi-trillion ponzi system, but not just yet despite loud warnings otherwise, we are getting close to a final verdict of where the $1.2 billion (and possibly

Sure, the GOP Establishment and many erstwhile “conservative” opinion-leaders are pushing Romney down our throats this election season (because what says “conservative alternative to Obama” better than a pro-government health care, pro-cap and trade, pro-TARP former Massachusetts governor / professional campaigner?) — and sure, many “TEA Party leaders” have come out in support of Gingrich (because, in addition to being pro-TARP, pro-cap and trade, and pro-ethanol subsidies, what says “TEA

From Patrick Lee, John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Professor of Bioethics at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Much of what is covered here is, for us here at pw, old ground: the definition of marriage as a type of relationship turns on just how we identify what is special about that type such that the government has a unique and legally defensible interest in promoting it (I don’t share with