Here's Wikipedia's summary of the great Charlton Heston movie, "Soylent Green:"

I know, I know: It's cheating to stick up a Colbert clip and call it a blog. But in this case, Colbert does the nation a service explaining why the low unemployment rate is a bogus statistic.

Dan Mitchell explains how the Laffer Curve works in the first of three videos from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity. Good stuff. (Hat tip: Larry Kudlow.)

From the "In God we trust, everyone else bring data" file, Brian Wesbury offers a most optimistic take on the economy in Monday's Wall Street Journal:

Supply-side guru Art Laffer weighs in on the Bush stimulus plan in Friday's Wall Street Journal. He's unimpressed. Rather than have the Treasury cut checks, Laffer recommends that Congress cut marginal tax rates again.