National I.D.? No, its worse. Much worse.

A system more about control than about security.

I have spent the last few years learning everything I possibly can about biometrics, RFID and the systems and policies our government is using to stealthily lock us into a national ID. Actually, it’s worse than a national ID, it’s international. The whole thing is complicated .... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - The Limits of Power

A subtle lesson about incentives that both the president and the people would do well to understand.

Steve Chapman: Should We Ban Walking While Wired?

Some people with power lack judgment about its proper limits. 

You've had the experience of walking along and negotiating around someone who is walking slowly, weaving or bumping into other pedestrians for an obvious reason: He or she is talking on a cell phone, listening to an iPod or texting on a Blackberry.  And you've had the natural, inevitable response to this annoyance:   MORE