Liberty is an individual, not a political, choice. The American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new president in the White House can solve the problems that plague us. Yet no matter who wins this next presidential election, you can rest assured that the new boss will be the same as the old boss, and we—the permanent underclass in ... MORE
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Showing posts with label rules. Show all posts
John W. Whitehead: No Matter Who Wins The White House, The New Boss Will Be The Same As The Old Boss
Liberty is an individual, not a political, choice. The American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new president in the White House can solve the problems that plague us. Yet no matter who wins this next presidential election, you can rest assured that the new boss will be the same as the old boss, and we—the permanent underclass in ... MOREGeorge Will: When Everything Is A Crime
Congress has work to undo. What began as a trickle has become a stream that could become a cleansing torrent. Criticisms of the overcriminalization
of American life might catalyze an appreciation of the toll the
administrative state is taking on the criminal justice system, and
liberty generally. In 2007, professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law ... MOREBruce Walker: Reclaiming Legislative Power
Too many laws created by bureaucrats. The power to make laws rests wholly in Congress – at least that is what the Constitution says. Yet who makes the “laws” in our federal system today? Vast amounts of legislative power have been “delegated” to independent federal regulatory agencies like the Federal Communications Commission or to the ... MOREDebra J. Saunders: The War on Drugs, San Francisco-Style
Banning chewing tobacco simply because they can. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had out-of-towners tell me they think San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city — so why is it that City Hall hasn’t done more about baseball pitchers chewing tobacco at city ballparks? No, wait. I can tell you. I’ve never heard that. ... MORENet Neutrality Is A Triumph of the Ruling Class
by Jeffrey Tucker. A triumph of “free expression and democratic principles”? How stupid do they think we are? It’s been painful to watch the gradual tightening of government
control in the name of net neutrality. The Federal Communications
Commission’s decision to rewrite the rules and declare the Internet as a
public utility seals the ... MORE
Luke Hilgemann: More Regulations Equals Less Business
Going into business gets tougher and tougher. The health of the American economy can easily be measured by the
health of American businesses — especially the rate at which people like
you and me start new ones. This simple metric shows whether the spirit
of innovation and entrepreneurship is alive in well in our country. It has been for ... MORERobby Soave: Abolish the Federal Drinking Age
Stop incentives to drink recklessly. Activists, administrators, and national policymakers concerned about a supposed epidemic of rape on college campuses should stop trying so damn hard to regulate students' sex lives. Instead, their efforts would be better spent lobbying Congress to abolish a law that puts students at risk of sexual assault by ... MOREJohn Stossel: The Better Way
It's easy to "fire" a business that rips you off. Just go to a different one. It's a lot easier to patronize another business than to get government to fix the problem. But bad businesses and the politicians they own, I mean influence, often don't want you to have that choice. I've written about how taxi companies don't like competition ... MORE
21,000 Regulations Under Obama, 2,375 More In 2015
Obama's regulation frenzy. The pace of agencies issuing new rules and regulations has hit a record high under President Obama, whose administration’s rules have filled 468,500 pages in the Federal Register. And, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the president is poised to unleash another 2,375 new rules on American ... MOREBehold: The Atheist Ten Non-Commandments
What do you think of these? What if, instead of climbing Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from God, Moses had turned to the Israelites and asked: Hey, what do you guys think we should do? Considering the Hebrews’ bad behavior in the Bible, what with the coveting of neighbors’ wives and murdering their own brothers, ... MORE
A Need To Regulate What Constitutes A Federal Regulation
by Todd Gaziano and Mark Miller. Last Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in two cases challenging whether regulatory agencies must use notice-and-comment procedures to alter the interpretation they have previously given to their own regulations. Those cases, Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Association and Nickols v. Mortgage Bankers ... MOREThomas Sowell: Is Law Optional?
Punishment based on preconceptions. The fiasco of "Rolling Stone" magazine's apology for an unsubstantiated claim of gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house — and the instant rush to judgment of the university administration in shutting down all fraternities, when those charges were made — should warn us about the dangers ... MOREWalter E Williams: What Is Rule Of Law?
Contemplating fairness. President Barack Obama said just before the recent Ferguson, Missouri, riots, "First and foremost, we are a nation built on the rule of law." Most Americans have little or no inkling of what "rule of law" means. Many think it means obedience to whatever laws legislatures enact. That's a vision that has led to human tragedy ... MORE
FDA Nannies Plan To Reduce Food Options For Americans
by Steve Chapman. Busybodies minding YOUR own business. On Thursday, hundreds of millions of Americans risked obesity, heart disease and indigestion by eating large quantities of food with no precise knowledge of the caloric content. If many of them felt regret on Friday, it was not because they were duped into overeating by the ... MOREJose Pagliery: Expect Heavy FAA Drone Regulations
Government rapidly seeks to curb new freedom. Farmers want drones to survey fields. Wedding photographers want them for moving aerial shots. They might soon need a pilot's license. By year's end, the Federal Aviation Administration will unveil proposed rules that apply to anyone flying a small drone that's even remotely for business ... MOREThomas Sowell: Racial Quota Punishment
Enabling bad behavior solves nothing. If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal government and the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes. Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice ... MOREReports Suggest FCC Poised To Regulate Internet
by John Gizzi. There has been mounting evidence in the last two weeks that the Internet, one of the last unregulated venues for communication, might well be headed for federal regulation. What makes the specter of Internet regulation (or "net neutrality," as its proponents prefer to call it) all the more ominous is that it might become ... MORE
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