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...Wall Street, they're talking about a summer-long rally as though it were some kind of birthright. Right on cue, the wags note, stocks began shooting higher after Memorial Day. We've survived April showers, or as was the case this year, an April deluge; sunny days must lie ahead. I sure hate to warn of more rain. But the annual summer rally that traders often speak of is unspectacular at best, and this year there's this little matter of being in a bear market...
...economic destiny and prosperity of entire nations may rest on one question: Can silicon-based computer technology sustain Moore's law beyond 2020? Moore's law (see sidebar) is the engine pulling a trillion-dollar industry. It's the reason kids assume that it's their birthright to get a video-game system each Christmas that's almost twice as powerful as the one they got last Christmas. It's the reason you can receive (and later throw away) a musical birthday card that contains more processing power than the combined computers of the Allied Forces in World...
Representative Joe Knollenberg, a Michigan Republican, has sponsored a bill to bring back the kind of flush that Americans consider their birthright. Paul Welday, Knollenberg's chief of staff, says the current law is "making lawbreakers out of people who just want a toilet that works...
...echoes in the McCain and Bush family legacies, one difference screams out as the two men fight their way toward the White House. McCain is eternally willing to talk about his father and grandfather and the burdens and advantages that came with his birthright; he throws credit their way like garlands. In the Bush universe, the subject is a private matter. Indeed, even as he honors his father and worships his example, George W. Bush never misses a chance to insist that what he has accomplished he has done on his own, by his own efforts and talents and grit...
...Offense is a birthright in America," he said. "If we are never offended, the first amendment is not working...