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The Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby has a great column on Spirit Airline's fees for carry-on luggage – and on Transportation Sec'y Ray LaHood who is yelping that his agency will try to prohibit such fees:

According to the Transportation Department website, LaHood's entire career has been spent on government payrolls; he has no business experience of any kind. Perhaps that explains his fatuous notion that Spirit, a for-profit company in a fiercely competitive industry, can jack up its fees without...