Dangerous safety signs

In this month's Wilson Quarterly, you can read Tom Vanderbilt's delightful story about a Dutch traffic engineer  who made a town safer by making the people feel unsafe. In the last few years, however, one traffic engineer did achieve a measure of global celebrity, known, if not exactly by name, then…

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Barack Obama’s economic Plan

What is Barack Obama's plan?  He's got it boiled down to two-minutes, in this spot which he is now running. Compare and contrast Obama's plan to McCain's repeated statement that the fundamentals of the American economy are strong: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWMVW_82dQ8&eurl=http://www.crooksandliars.com/[/youtube] I wonder if McCain is relying on the fake economic data…

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