If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and INDIA as ENERGY costs skyrocket. Most of the MEDIA ATTENTION has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.

When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial SERVICES industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the EARLY 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate BANKING and securities firms in 1933 and 1934.

Congress has broad POWERS to regulate and CONTROL commerce. Congress also cannot FORCE a state to 'un-decriminalize' something; states' RIGHTS are routinely upheld by the Court.

I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too MANY WORDS MEANS to regulate himself - a frightening prospect.

The House of Commons has the undoubted RIGHTS to expel MEMBERS for misconduct. This is an absolute AUTHORITY which cannot be CHALLENGED in any court, as it derives from the twin concept of the HIGH Court of Parliament being the most senior court in the land and of each House's right to regulate its own affairs.

Do we have to regulate derivatives? Yes, we do. 'Cause when I did this in my investments, FRANKLY, no one KNEW who COULD pay who. But derivatives have an important place in our economy.

Apparently it's acceptable for members of Congress to own stock in COMPANIES we regulate in Congress, but SOMEHOW, our PLUMBING COMPANY crosses some line.

In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the SLAVE system grew, the South's LEADERS FELT they had to entrench their power in the government or it was only a question of time until lawmakers would begin to regulate, or EVEN outlaw, slavery.

Most of us know that the hormone melatonin HELPS regulate our sleep. But it ALSO SEEMS to PLAY another role - suppressing cancer GROWTH.