Getting supply to where it is needed most. Some more words on price gouging, as New York and New Jersey are increasingly afflicted by gasoline shortages. There are three issues we need to look at here. One is allocation, one is short-term supply, and one is long-term supply. A lot of people seem to want to look at this purely as an allocative ... MOREMatthew Yglesias: Why Price Gouging Is Necessary
Getting supply to where it is needed most. Some more words on price gouging, as New York and New Jersey are increasingly afflicted by gasoline shortages. There are three issues we need to look at here. One is allocation, one is short-term supply, and one is long-term supply. A lot of people seem to want to look at this purely as an allocative ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Should You Vote For President?
Vote your conscience, don't waste it. Can you vote by not voting? In a presidential election year in which the critical issues have been how much personal behavior the federal government should regulate and how much private wealth it should transfer and consume, rather than whether it should do so, many folks who are fed up with what George W. Bush ... MOREDerek Robertson: Negative Versus Positive Rights
Just what is a "human right"? The phrase “healthcare is a human right” displays a profound ignorance of basic terminology, as well as a contradictory, self-imploding notion of what qualifies as a “right.” A poll once indicated that many Americans believe healthcare to indeed qualify as a right, probably mistaking themselves to possess compassion ... MORE
VIDEO: PC Is Never Having To Say You're Sorry
WARNING: Members of the ethnic or gender grievance industries will be offended.
John Stossel: Coulter Defends Romney
Her defense goes only so far. Mitt Romney tells people he won't fire federal workers or cut education spending. He says he'll spend more on the military. He sounds like a big-government guy. Or is he just pandering for votes? Ann Coulter came on my TV show to defend Romney. "What you call pandering is called getting elected," Coulter said. Romney says ... MOREIn Seattle, Nothing Says 'Liberal" Like Being Unarmed
by Dave Workman. If there were any lingering doubts about the City of Seattle being
the Evergreen State’s biggest liberal stronghold, they vanished Monday
with KIRO’s revealing report about concealed carry across Washington. As this column reported
the same day, there are more than 382,000 active concealed pistol
licenses in the state, according to ... MORE
Doug Doan: Homeland Security - What Next?
What we should do next. So far, none of the presidential candidates have mentioned much about Homeland Security. With so many other problems, issues surrounding how best to organize, manage and lead the vast DHS bureaucracy are just not that important. Too bad. I would have liked to see the candidates talk about what they might do. Here is an agenda ... MOREIoan Grillo: Hit Mexico's Cartels With Legalization
Death by prohibition. Whenever I’ve interviewed Mexican cartel killers, the aspect that I’ve found most disturbing about them is that they appear to be sane. Even though they have described to me such unfathomable actions as hacking off the heads of still-living victims, it is something other than mental illness that drives their violence. Their sanity is ... MOREPresident Obama Jabs At Ayn Rand, Knocks Himself Out
by Wendy Milling. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama stated, “Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up.” I’m not trying to mock the President here – he is just repeating an old propaganda line that was hatched by Rand’s opponents – but I have to ask the “adults” ... MORE
Dylan Scott: Pot Legalization Close To Passage In 2 States
The times they are a changin'. Barring an abrupt reversal in support among likely voters on Nov. 6,
at least two states will become the first to legalize marijuana for
recreational use. Colorado’s Amendment 64 would allow adults 21 and over to possess
marijuana and requires the state to license and regulate cultivation and
retail centers. In essence, ... MORE
Edward Cline: "Hate" Laws Are Criminal
The First Amendment should not be a felony offense. The end of freedom of speech began with the invention of “hate crimes”
as a means to deter and punish crimes committed against an individual or
members of a designated or protected “minority.” Hate crimes had their
conspicuous genesis under the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Pick Your Constitutional Poison
Obama and Romney share a disdain for civil liberties. During the final
presidential debate, the moderator asked Mitt Romney about
President Obama's policy of killing suspected terrorists, including
U.S. citizens, with missiles fired from unmanned aircraft. "I
believe we should use any and all means necessary to take out
people who pose a ... MORE50 Obama-Backed Companies Are Financially Troubled
by Micheal Bastasch. The October bankruptcy of solar company Satcon Technology Corp. puts
the number of bankrupt or troubled green energy companies as high as 50,
according to one estimate. During the first presidential debate, Republican candidate Mitt
Romney said the Obama administration had doled out $90 billion to green
energy ... MOREThe 10 Most Unexpected Marijuana Reform Supporters
by Tom Angell. With less than one week before we find out how voters in Colorado, Oregon and Washington will decide on ballot measures to regulate marijuana like alcohol, polls indicate there's a very good chance at least one of these states will make history by enacting the world's first-ever marijuana legalization law. While the movement to reform marijuana laws ... MORE Quarter-Billion-Dollar Stimulus Creates Just 400 Jobs
by Jim McElhatton. Battery maker A123 Systems
vowed thousands of new jobs when it received a nearly
quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant in late 2009, but federal
job-tracking figures show only a few hundred positions were created
before the company joined a growing list of federally backed energy
businesses that ended in bankruptcy. ... MOREBrian Phillips: Zoning Versus The Internet
The key to success is freedom. The stated purpose of zoning is to control land use within a community
to prevent “incompatible” land uses and to promote planning. Most
Americans accept zoning as a “necessary evil” that prevents pawn shops
and factories from operating in residential neighborhoods. Most
Americans are, to paraphrase Benjamin ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: 'Cooling Out' The Voters
Playing the electorate as chumps. Confidence men know that their victim — "the mark" as he has been called — is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediately, and goes to the police, or realizes it after the confidence man is long gone. So part of the confidence racket is creating a ... MORE
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