Showing posts with label politicians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politicians. Show all posts
Julia Vitullo Martin: Drunk With Power
How Prohibition led to big government. If they think about Prohibition at all, most Americans probably accept Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter’s conclusion that it was a farce, a “ludicrous caricature of the reforming impulse,” an ineffective albeit financially costly moral crusade imposed on a reluctant populace. Decades ... MOREJohn Stossel: Bettors Beat The Pundits
Who puts their money where their mouth is? Want to know who the next president will be? Don't trust polls or pundits. Betting odds at ElectionBettingOdds.com are the best predictor of who will win any election. Pundits have a terrible track record. Last election, Newt Gingrich and Dick Morris forecast a Romney "landslide." Rush Limbaugh ... MORE
California 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 ... MOREJesse Walker: 2015 - The Year In Fear
Exaggerating fear for political purposes. We live an age of unprecedented danger. The country is being battered by a nationwide crime wave. Subversives are waging a guerrilla war on cops. ISIS threatens the very existence of the United States, and its agents are infiltrating the homeland
through our porous southern border. Even when the ... MORELittle-Told Story Of How The U.S. Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition With Deadly Consequences
by Deborah Blum. A reminder about public servants. It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat. ... MORE
Steven Greenhut: Regulation A Sure Bet For Fantasy Games
California's option destroyers never sleep. "Fantasy sports"
has come a long way from the office football pool. Instead of passing
around photocopied spreadsheets and collecting a few bucks from cubicle
mates, players now go to sophisticated web sites, where they can make
daily wagers—and not just trudge through a long sports season ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: Admit It. You Just Want Your Own Dictator
Leaders are unsavory, dangerous, and unAmerican. This incessant clamoring by voters and punditry for better "leaders" and
more "leadership" is one of the most unsavory, dangerous and
un-American tendencies in political discourse. When Donald Trump was asked last week by Joe Scarborough what he made of
an endorsement from ... MOREJohn Stossel: Politicians Without Borders
Today's politicians seem to have few limits. When driving on treacherous roads, guardrails are useful. If you fall asleep or maybe you're just a bad driver, guardrails may prevent you from going off a cliff. Recently, The Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel used the phrase "no political guardrails" to point out how many of today's ... MOREEffort To Curb Painkiller Prescribing Faces Stiff Opposition
by Matthew Perrone. The option destroyers meet opposition. A bold federal effort to curb prescribing of painkillers may be faltering amid stiff resistance from drugmakers, industry-funded groups and, now, even other public health officials. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was on track to finalize new prescribing guidelines for opioid ... MOREPeter Suderman: Democrats And Republicans Team Up To Bust The Budget With A $1.8 Trillion Spending Package
Politicians indulge themselves at taxpayer expense. One way to understand the massive federal spending package is as a compromise between Republicans and Democrats to ignore the deficit. The deal is made of two different elements—a 2,009-page omnibus that folds in 12 appropriations bills and calls for $1.1 trillion in spending, ... MORE
A Missouri Town Demands Substantive Due Process
by George Will. Is this the future? If Pagedale, Mo., is a glimpse of the future, the future is going to be annoying. Pagedale might represent the future of governance unless some of its residents succeed in their lawsuit against their government. If they do, it will be because they successfully invoked the principle of substantive due process. Pagedale is ... MOREJerry Brown Pimps 'Coercive Power of the State' In Paris
by Rob Nikolewski. For the public good as determined by political elites. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) raised some eyebrows while attending the United Nations Climate Summit
in Paris, proclaiming the "coercive power of the central state" is
needed to promote good public policy, specifically when it comes to a
cleaner environment. ... MORE
California Climate Policies Chilling Housing Growth
by Steven Greenhut. The California Supreme Court's decision
late last month to reject a nearly 6,000-page environmental report for a
proposed development north of Los Angeles will not only delay or
possibly kill a new suburban community. It will make it much more
difficult for developers anywhere in California to build large-scale
housing projects. ... MOREObama's Heaping Helping Of Government Regulations
a Press-Enterprise editorial. The Obama administration may have been thankful that people were not paying attention on Thanksgiving to the 2,224 new regulations it is proposing. The government is required to publish an agenda of regulatory activities twice a year and, as the Daily Caller observes, “Obama has developed a habit of releasing ... MORE
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