Seen and unseen. California political observers are understandably fixated on the
goings-on in the state legislature, which is the living embodiment of
what New York Judge Gideon Tucker wrote in an 1866 ruling:
"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is
in session." Reporters and commentators also focus on major legal ... MORE
Showing posts with label regulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label regulation. Show all posts
Steven Greenhut: How Regulators Quietly Drive Up Costs
Seen and unseen. California political observers are understandably fixated on the
goings-on in the state legislature, which is the living embodiment of
what New York Judge Gideon Tucker wrote in an 1866 ruling:
"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is
in session." Reporters and commentators also focus on major legal ... MOREPatients In Pain, And A Doctor Who Must Limit Drugs
Gov't declares war on pain relief. Susan Kubicka-Welander, a short-order cook, went to her pain checkup appointment straight from the lunch-rush shift. “We were really busy,” she told Dr. Robert L. Wergin, trying to smile through deeply etched lines of exhaustion. “Thursdays, it’s Philly cheesesteaks.” Her back ached from a compression fracture; ... MOREMichelle Malkin: Obamacare’s Tax-Time Torment
The bumbling Obamacare bureaucracy. Thousands of taxpayers must do without a form needed to claim a tax credit for their overpriced health-insurance premiums. Where is my 1095-A? This is what it must be like dealing with a government agency in a third world country.” That was the lament on Twitter of just one poor citizen this week trying ... MOREBrittany Hunter: How Congress Is Giving Up Its Power
Unelected bureaucrats now call most of the shots. Today, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law will hold a hearing on the growth of federal bureaucracy. At the center of the discussion is a legal principle known as “Chevron deference,” something few ... MOREObamaCare: WORSE Than A Complete Waste Of Money
by John Hinderaker. The findings of NPR and Harvard. National Public Radio collaborated with Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to survey Americans’ recent experience with health care. As to the Affordable Care Act, the survey’s findings are damning. They suggest that Obamacare has been ... MOREDaniel Gelernter: Liberals Want Your Car Keys
Can computerized cars drive better than we can? The cover story of Time’s March 7 issue makes “the increasingly compelling case for why you shouldn’t be allowed to drive,” claiming that computerized cars are (or, it is hoped, will be) safer drivers than humans, and so the logical thing is to ban humans from driving altogether. The plan is ... MOREGov’t Regulations Weigh On Gloomy Small-Business Owners
an Investor's Business Daily editorial. Red Tape: Two new surveys of small-business owners show they’re “treading water,” and the government isn’t throwing them any lifelines. Instead, it’s weighing them down with more and more costly and burdensome regulations. Optimism about economic conditions last month hit a two-year low ... MOREJohn Stossel: Libertarian Lite
Lighten up, truth can be scary. In this year's Republican presidential primaries, Sen. Rand Paul got little traction. In 2012, his father failed. That year, the Libertarian Party candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, got just 1 percent of the vote. We libertarians must be doing something wrong. Maybe our anti-government message is too ... MOREOregon Legislature Repeals Laws Of Supply & Demand
It is not likely to work out well. Like the apocryphal story
of the state legislature that passed a law dictating that pi equals 3,
the Oregon state legislature has passed two laws that pretend the laws
of supply & demand don’t exist. The difference is that, in reality,
no state legislature ever did pass a law saying that pi equals 3, but
Oregon’s ... MOREAmerican Slips To 11th Place In Economic Freedom
Government is slowly squandering our heritage. A “solid C,” they call it in school. Not flunking, certainly, but also not excelling. That grade characterizes the score of 75.4 that the United States earned on the Heritage Foundations’s 2016 “Index of Economic Freedom,” which grades countries on such factors as property rights, government ... MOREJohn Stossel: Regulating The Future
Government pretends it's the cause of progress. Then it strangles innovation. We know government understands that new technologies are important. The military invests in robots and traffic cops use radar guns. But when the rest of us use robots or fly drones, government gets eager to put rules in place before things get ... MOREDozens Of Studies Libertarians Should Know About
The proof for economic freedom. Over the years I have been running ‘Being Classically Liberal,’ I have done a bit of research and come across a number of empirical research papers which I find very interesting and relevant to many current socioeconomic debates. I figured I’d share them here, so that other people can use them as resources. ... MORELizzie Dearden: Iranian Drug War Kills Every Man In Town
Ending drug the government way. Every man in an Iranian village has reportedly been executed by the government on drug charges. Shahindokht Molaverdi, the vice president for women and family
affairs, was arguing for increased provision for convicts’ families when
she made the admission. “We have a village in Sistan and Baluchestan ... MOREJohn Stossel: Joy and Bad Law
Oscar Sunday. According to Betfair.com, Jennifer Lawrence probably won't win best actress at the Oscars Sunday. I'm rooting for her, though — not because of her acting, but because the movie she stars in, "Joy," celebrates the difficulty of entrepreneurship. Lawrence's character is based on real-life entrepreneur Joy Mangano, who invented the ... MOREVictor Davis Hansen: The Medicine Has Stopped Working
In search of fixes for a fossilized economy. The U.S. economy grew at an anemic rate of less than 1 percent in the last quarter of 2015. While the unemployment rate has dipped below 5 percent, the all-important labor force participation rate is at a historic low of just 62.7 percent. More than 90 million able-bodied adults are either not ... MORERepealing The FDA’s Stupid Menu-Labeling Mandate
by Baylen Linnekin. Bring back common sense! Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 266-144 in favor of the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2015. The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration. If passed, the bill would amend a host of menu-labeling rules that were
adopted by the Food and Drug Administration ... MORE
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