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 ... MORE
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American 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 ... MOREOccupational Licensing Regulations Stifle Job Creation
from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. How long do you think it takes to train to become a licensed barber in Nevada? A month? Six months? Maybe a year? Nope. Try 2½ years. In a recent piece for Politico, Andy Koenig points out that barbers are among dozens of entry- and mid-level professions harmed by out-of-control occupational ... MOREFelony Charge For Selling A Wisconsin Beer In Minnesota
by Brian Doherty. Complete f-ing insanity from the outskirts of the Land of the Free, as reported by Minnesota Star-Tribune, about a former pair of publicans from Minnesota who will be going to court in March facing felony charges for selling Spotted Cow beer at the Maple Tavern in Maple Grove, Minnesota. The former owner and manager (the bar is ... MOREGeorgia Democrats Back ‘Assault Weapon’ Confiscation Bill
by Awr Hawkins. On January 11, Democrats in Georgia’s state house introduced a bill that bans “assault weapons” and opens the door for the “seizure” of such weapons, along with accessories like “high capacity” magazines. According to the text of HB 731, the bill focuses on ” dangerous instrumentalities and practices” by prohibiting the ... MOREBrad Rodu: Bootleggers, Baptists And E-cigarettes
The alliance to ban potentially live-saving devices. E-cigarette users should be concerned about proposed Food and Drug Administration regulations that may eliminate most brands of these potentially life-saving cigarette alternatives, leaving only those products marketed by large tobacco companies with the resources to complete expensive ... MOREFeds Want To Lower Legal Driving Limit To One Drink
by Elizabeth Harrington. More restrictions, less freedom. The National Transportation Safety Board wants to decrease the legal driving limit to one drink, lowering the legal limit on blood-alcohol content to 0.05 “or even lower.” The agency released its “most wanted list” on Wednesday, a laundry list of policies it would like implemented ... MOREA Faster Internet? Not With FCC Regulations
by Steve Pociask. Does the FCC’s public utility-style regulation of wireline incumbent telephone companies (abbreviated here as ILECs)
and their legacy copper-based voice services work to protect consumers
or impede broadband competition? That is the question explored by a new American Consumer Institute study. Telephone service regulations ... MORE3,000 Business Regulations Coming In 2016
by Shubhomita Bose. Another year, another roll of red tape for small businesses to cut through. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, over 3,000 new regulations are in the pipeline for 2016 on top of the 3,300 issued in 2015. Some of the regulations that will have a direct impact on businesses include a possible Environmental Protection Agency ... MOREWar On Guns: Obama Executive Order May Require Those Selling Even A Single Firearm To Become Licensed Dealers
by Stephen Gutowski. Harassing law abiding citizens is always his answer. The Obama administration announced during a conference call with reporters Monday evening that the president’s upcoming executive order may require somebody selling even a single firearm to obtain a Federal Firearms License. During the call White House Press ... MOREGun Sales Peak As Obama Demands New Gun Restrictions
by Christopher Ingraham. New federal data shows 2015 was a record-smashing year for the American firearms industry, with gun
sales appearing to hit the highest level on record. Background checks
for gun purchases and permits jumped 10 percent last year to 23.1
million, the largest number since the federal background check system ... MORECalifornia Town Goes Podunk; Seeks To Stymie Medical Pot
by Thaddeus Miller. As state pot policy moves forward, one city goes backwards. Medical marijuana cardholders will not be allowed to grow cannabis for their own consumption after a vote Monday while the Merced City Council figures out what cultivation and dispensaries should be permitted in the city. The council unanimously passed the ... MOREThomas Sowell: Showman-In-Chief
The king of blather takes the stage again. Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump's political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for tighter gun control laws. ... MOREObama Pushing Thousands Of New Regulations In Year 8
by Timothy Noah. Nearly 4,000 regulations are squirming their way through the federal bureaucracy in the last year of Barack Obama’s presidency — many costing industry more than $100 million — in a mad dash by the White House to push through government actions affecting everything from furnaces to gun sales to Guantanamo. That ... MORENYT Columnist Wants A Minimum Drinking Age For Soda
by Guy Bentley. Busybodies minding your own business. A New York Times columnist has proposed the government introduce a
minimum age for buying soda and card kids who try to buy Coca-Cola at
the local store. In wide-ranging discussion with Luckypeach.com,
food journalist and New York Times opinion writer Mark Bittman
attempted to equate ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Mass Shooting Delusions
Those "common-sense gun safety laws. Two days after the massacre in San Bernardino, Marco Rubio said something that most gun control supporters probably thought was outrageous. The Florida senator, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, told CBS News "none of the major shootings that have occurred in this country ... MORERepublicans Look To Protect E-Cigs From FDA Regulators
Slipping liberty past the tyrants. It’s last-minute Congressional budget season, which, for politicians, means it’s time to sneak totally unrelated provisions into the budget bill. And this year, the Republicans have a gift for all the vapers out there: a provision about the “grandfather date” for tobacco products. Wait, what? But keep reading — ... MORE
Restrictions On Adult Alcohol Access Don't Make Us Safer
Data explodes popular fallacy. Violent crime and binge drinking are two potential undesirable outcomes of access to alcohol. But is increased access to alcohol for adult drinkers a sufficient precondition for these attendant negative externalities of drinking? A recent look at the impact of changes to laws governing pub hours in England and Wales 10 ... MORE
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