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Free Markets, Laws/Regulations, Liberty

A Victory in the Food Truck Wars

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I’ve written before about the anti-consumer battle against food trucks, and efforts to deny consumers convenient access to the popular, varied, and inexpensive fare that food trucks offer. See, Institute for Justice Defends the Rights of Street Vendors. In El Paso, where that city had tried to zone food trucks away from potential patrons, there’s…

Libertarians, Liberty

Why the MacIver Institute’s Not Libertarian

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….Brett Healy, president of the conservative John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy in Madison, said it’s important to distinguish between public and private sector unions. “Unions originally were established to help a group of individuals come to a reasonable agreement with their employer,” he said. “In this case, the employer is the government. So…

Laws/Regulations, Liberty

The Transportation Security Administration’s Latest Outrage

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The ACLU issued the following message about the Transportation Security Administration, and that agency’s latest intrusion on Americans’ liberties. In the pursuit of a false security, this agency distorts civil society, badgers citizens, and particularly terrifies children. Note, also, the damage these agents inflict: they speak to children in ways beguiling and undermining of a…

Laws/Regulations, Liberty

Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Drink – WSJ.com

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I have never supported a ‘big-drinking’ culture. Alcohol is best consumed moderately, enjoyed leisurely, with agreeable company. Wisconsin has seen more than her share of drinking tragedies, made far worse by stubborn insistence that, if only enforcement becomes severe enough, we’ll be able to stop further tragedies. We won’t. No level of enforcement tried or…

Government Spending, Liberty, Politics, University

Thirty-Five Million’s Not the Answer

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You may have heard that UW-Whitewater’s in line for thirty-five million in construction spending. All those millions, but still a march of UW-Whitewater professors to Madison to protest the governor’s budget. (I posted on the trek, as reported in the Janesville Gazette, on March 23rd at Daily Wisconsin.) Why would they walk all that way?…

Beautiful Whitewater, City, Freedom of Speech, Liberty

What Democracy Looks Like

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Last Friday, there was a protest rally in Whitewater, along Main Street, and over one-hundred fifty people attended. See, Scenes from a Whitewater Rally, 3.18.11. That’s a large number for Whitewater — especially on a Friday evening as work was ending — and larger in ways worthy of mention. First, the pro-union gathering was one…

Freedom of Speech, Liberty

‘Thugs,’ ‘Pickets,’ and Other Absurd Claims

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Whitewater’s tired, stodgy town fathers, and chief bureaucrat, aren’t really conservative or liberal: they’re simply reactionary. So when a few working people came to town, to protest lawfully near a politician’s house, one read about this as though Whitewater were besieged by barbarians by pickets(!) from Milwaukee. That’s Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Madison, Wisconsin — as…

Liberty

A Rally in Whitewater on Friday, March 18th

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Here’s a chance to exercise the freedom of assembly in defense of the freedom of association. On Friday, March 18th, there will be a rally at the Main Street bridge in Whitewater, near Cravath Lakefront followed by a town hall meeting at the Whitewater City Council chambers. Here’s more about the event, from a public…