I reported last week that the Chinese firm Netease has, with my permission, set up a Chinese mirror of this blog.

Here is the traffic report for the 10-day period from May 24 to June 2 inclusive:

• Visits to US site: 25,006

Over the weekend a draft of Senator Kennedy’s (D-MA) health care bill leaked. After playing with Adobe Acrobat, here is the text of the draft Kennedy bill as a text file (173 K), and as a single Acrobat file (3.4 MB). Update: I fixed the broken link to…

In a few hours I will offer my thoughts and reactions to the General Motors bankruptcy filing and the President’s noon announcement. For now, here is what I have been able to figure out from the White House fact sheet and secondary source reporting…

In his press conference yesterday, the President’s opening statement covered Iran, climate change, and health care. Here he is on climate change:

This energy bill will create a set of incentives that will spur the…

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Rep. George Miller, Chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee, write in today’s Wall Street Journal that “Congress Must Pay for What It Spends,” subtitled “Democrats won’t be the party of deficits.” They argue in…