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Crime, Laws/Regulations, Liberty

Regulating Over Prohibiting Marijuana

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From last Monday’s national Libertarian Party message, there’s a proposal to regulate marijuana like wine. Whether it’s regulated like wine or more strictly, the trend against outright prohibition is unmistakable. See, Gallup Reports Record Number in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana Use. Of those who favor a complete prohibition, two things may be said: they often…

Laws/Regulations

Reason’s Nanny of the Month for October 2011

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It’s an international edition this month, and the winner is the European Union, as that vast bureaucracy has regulated children’s activities from “baby rattlers (which have brand-new noise restrictions) to blowing up balloons (not to be done by tots under age eight!).”

Food, Free Markets, Laws/Regulations

Visit to a Truck-Food Paradise

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I was recently in a spot that had a long row of food trucks, offering traditional fare from around the world. There were a half-dozen trucks, and I’m told that often there are many more. Patrons were in line at each of them, people from every walk of life. A diverse selection, for a diverse…

Law, Laws/Regulations, Liberty

Legislator responsible for Transportation Security Administration says dismantle, privatize the agency

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Indeed. Long, long overdue. The agency is one of America’s greatest contemporary mistakes. They’ve been accused of rampant thievery, spending billions of dollars like drunken sailors, groping children and little old ladies, and making everyone take off their shoes. But the real job of the tens of thousands of screeners at the Transportation Security Administration…

Law, Laws/Regulations, Liberty

Matt Welch Debates Ann Coulter on the Iraq War, TSA, and Using Torture

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Reason editor-in-chief Matt Welch debated Ann Coulter on a special Stossel episode dedicated to how the government has responded to 9/11. Welch debated Coulter on how secure America is after invading Iraq, creating the TSA, and implementing torture for information gathering. Air Date: September 8, 2011. I’m with Welch on all three, believing particularly that…

Laws/Regulations, Taxes/Taxation

Helping Entrepreneurs Enrich America: Univ. of San Diego Law Professor Donna Matias

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It’s hard to run a business, as entrepreneurs are burdened in taxes, regulations, and find themselves squeezed by those who have never run a small enterprise. (Regulators have often spent a lifetime working at state — taxpayer — expense.) Here’s a video describing a law clinic that’s helping America’s job-creators thrive against long odds. The…

Economy, Free Markets, Laws/Regulations

The Best Way to Create Jobs: Free Markets in Capital and Labor

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Here’s New York Mayor and businessman Michael Bloomberg talking about the best way to create jobs. He’s right that fewer immigration restrictions actually boost American employment. There’s much more to be said about all this, but a scheme of labor restrictions isn’t just socially disruptive, and an example of over-criminalization.  Restrictions impoverish America; free private…

Free Markets, Laws/Regulations, Liberty

Defending Street Vendors, Food Trucks, and Consumer Choice

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Here’s an update in the battle for economic freedom and consumer choice. I’ve written before about how incumbent, brick-and-mortar restaurants try to use government to shield themselves from food-truck competitors. Those restaurateurs do not — will never — deserve governmental protection. They made a free choice to open a store, instead of operating a truck,…