Prominent media voices are calling for a gas tax that would boost fuel costs back to $4 a gallon. But wouldn't that be a regressive tax on the poor? "Why is it that the most prominent media voices seem so ignorant of the economic consequences of their social experiments?" Anthony Bradley asks.

In this season of giving, Kevin Schmiesing looks at another form of exchange -- trade. He observes that ethical commercial activity "is not an exercise in selfishness, but the practice of properly ordered self-interest, which is of necessity tempered by the wants and needs of others."