Articles of Interest
Obama's budget, Citigroup rescue, Twitter, climate change, lobbying. The Era of Even Bigger Government: There is very little to be happy about in Obama's first budget (Veronique de Rugy at Reason) Does the Obama budget work? According to this author, some of the accounting tricks used in the past are gone, but dissembling remains: "To cut the size of the federal government, one actually has to, you know, cut programs. While Obama's overall numbers do show a spending decrease between 2009 and 2010, he actually increases many categories of spending, which remains far above 2008 levels in any case. In…