August 29, 2009 WSJ Catchup

Here are the WSJ articles from this week that I felt worthy of passing along:

Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing!
'Extreme' Pogoers Do Backflips, Hop Minivans; In This Sport, Bounces Per Second Matter

The Absent-Minded Chairman
Charlie Rangel wins the personal lottery.

Microsoft Cuts Price of Xbox 360

Mound City on the Mississippi

BOOK EXCERPT: 'Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi'

Bridging the Gay-Evangelical Divide
Extreme opinions move toward the middle.

Makers of Military Drones Take Off

Ghostly Companions
Survivors of extreme situations—on Everest and elsewhere—credit the help of a 'third man' who is not there.

Study Guide
How to save money on the first year of college

The Mistakes We Make—and Why We Make Them
How investors think often gets in the way of their results. Meir Statman looks into our heads and tells us what we're doing wrong.

Obama's Health Rationer-in-Chief
White House health-care adviser Ezekiel Emanuel blames the Hippocratic Oath for the 'overuse' of medical care.

August 23, 2009 WSJ Catchup

I love the Wall Street Journal. It always contains the latest breaking news and is often the source of most of the news that makes the national news cycle. A subscription is required to view it online, but specific articles can be Googled and viewed without a restriction. I'll try to list some that caught my attention this past week.

ObamaCare Is All About Rationing

Why AT&T Killed Google Voice

The Africans Are Hearing Footsteps

American Sprinters Hit A Headwind

The Death Book For Veterans

Tax Withholding Is Bad for Democracy "The top 1% of American households pay more in federal income taxes than the bottom 95% combined... This deforms the behavior of everyone—the voters who think they aren't paying for Congress's latest bright idea, the politicians who know that promising new programs will always be a winning political strategy with the majority of taxpayers who don't think they have to pay for them, and the wealthy who know that the only way to get politicians to refrain from that strategy is to buy them off."