Mike Allen follows Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan around his district as he advocates for Social Security reform:
Ryan, who will help write the legislation as a member of the Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security and is a longtime proponent of changing the popular government retirement program, is pushing the White House idea to farmers and factory workers throughout his district in the southeastern corner of the dairy state, with 35 “listening sessions” in 12 days.
Claus Christian Malzahn in Berlin:
We Europeans always want to have the world from yesterday, whereas the Americans strive for the world of tomorrow.
Via instapundit.
Verne Kopytoff visits with some of the Choicepoint victims.
One would think this is from the Onion, but, in fact, it’s true. Slashdot discussion.
But just as the market value of an MBA is reviving, its academic credibility is being attacked. In a forthcoming article to be published posthumously in Academy of Management Learning & Education, Sumantra Ghoshal argues that many of the ?worst excesses of recent management practices have their roots in a set of ideas that have emerged from business-school academics over the last 30 years.?
Interesting look at the politics and lobbying behind efforts to stop the spread of municipally owned broadband networks. Glenn Fleishman.
Darren Johnson shares a rather interesting chat with Warren Buffett.
Google, a company with a philosophy that includes: #6: “You can make money without doing evil”. is now, doing just that with:
Hunter S. Thompson on Security (1955) – via Bruce Schneier. Well worth reading.
Tammy Baldwin discussed President Bush’s much discussed social security changes recently. Eric Kleefeld has more. I think one of the ideas thrown around – removing the cap on social security payroll taxes makes sense. I find the regressive nature of the current system plain wrong.