Remember this from last week?

In a major shift of policy, the Justice Department, once known for taking down giant corporations, including the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years.

Now there's this:

I've mentioned before that I think the United States should and could be doing a better job of competing in the realm of ideas abroad. This is a pretty good start:

Lending credence to my theory that Bill Gates will own all of us in the not-too-distant future, Microsoft yesterday put in an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo.

I'm enough of a conservative to be as suspicious and skeptical of big business as I am of big government. What might that future look like? Maybe a little bit like the past: