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Cars: The Next ?Big Tobacco?
2007-09-22 11:41:00 How does the old Martin Niemöller poem go? “When they came for the Jews, I said nothing, for I was not a Jew.” So it was when businessmen outside the tobacco industry turned a blind eye as statists in Europe and America systematically raped and ruined cigarette manufacturers, destroyed the reputations of their executives and ...
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The Perfect as Enemy of the Good
2007-09-19 23:21:00 John J. Miller has a lovely piece in this week’s print edition of National Review on the Ronpaulist advent. Although it’s far more sympathetic to the man and his movement than most of us on the rightblogs (who have seen firsthand the villainy of the supporters) would like, it is nevertheless very crushing. Miller portrays Ronpaul ...
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Building Barriers to Work Through Regulation
2007-08-27 21:40:00 Here’s an illuminating little study. The Reason Foundation ranked the states based upon the government regulation of careers. That is, based on the number of professions which required a state license. As the study demonstrates, many of these license requirements are totally frivolous and doubtlessly affect low income unemployment. Do you really need a license ...
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Authorized Silliness
2007-08-27 01:05:00 What was Judge Dredd’s old slogan? “Punish the guilty, keep the innocent nervous.” In that vein you’ve gotta love this utterly purposeless government sign in Bangor, Maine from Slublog. Knowing the ways of city governments, I’m hesitant to mock it though. Facing criticism the city solution will be to pass an ordinance requiring the installation of ...
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The New Sugar Act
2007-07-17 15:06:00 (image: corkandbottle) The 1760s, like the 70s, was a time of protest in colonial America which sparked the seeds of eventual revolution. One of the subjects of such protest was a new law enacted on April 5, 1764, when Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act, which was about to expire. Early ...
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