Paradigm: Regulator vs. Solver of Social Problems

'Any Way You Look At It, You Lose'
By Robert Formaini/TCS Original Article

Now that Bill Clinton's aptly-named "permanent campaign" has resulted in another passed election, followed of course by another permanent campaign until the 2008 election, it's a good time to step back and examine a commonly argued, yet totally fallacious, concept, that being: Public policy can be evaluated in a non-partisan manner and one's "independent" vote then based on the result of those careful evaluations. Despite the secular worship this idea receives from the media, it is utter nonsense.