In his Examiner column today, former CEI Brookes Fellow Tim Carney explodes the myth of AIG as a stalwart defender of free markets that caved in at the sight of federal dollars coming its way:

AIG in 2007 joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (US-CAP), a group whose purpose is to lobby for federal restrictions on greenhouse gases. Specifically, US-CAP lobbies for a scheme of mandatory federal caps on greenhouse gas emissions with tradable emission allowances—a “cap-and-trade” policy pushed hard by Enron…

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I recently came across Tumbleweed, the self-styled “tiny house company.” The houses that Tumbleweed builds in California and delivers to any site in the lower 48 states are, indeed, tiny. They range from 70 to 120 square feet. By comparison, a typical new home is a shade under 2,500 square feet, up from about 2,000 square feet 10 years ago and about 800 square feet in the 1950s. The Tumbleweed houses are also pretty to boot. For people determined to live…

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