• Mean regression: The Tea Party is turning states into little Ayn Rand laboratories 
Ed Kilgore, The New Republic It’s hard to imagine a more enthusiastic endorsement of the old moonlight-and-magnolias approach of making lower business costs—including taxes, wages, and all those inconvenient regulations aimed at protecting the workforce or the environment—the sole strategy for economic development, at the expense of other public and private goods.   Published: 2010-12-22