Archive for the 'regulation' Category
MichaelW on Dec 16 2007 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Humor, Libertarianism, MichaelW's Page, regulation
Thaddeus Tremayne sees potential legal troubles for St. Nick in the UK:
A frosty reception awaits Santa Claus in Britain this year. It seems that the much-loved benefactor of children everywhere is, in fact, suspected of being guilty of a number of illegal practices.
The jolly fatman’s employment practices are demanding particular scrutiny:
The Equality Commission has also […]
Germany Warned About Minimum Wage Laws
MichaelW on Dec 05 2007 | Filed under: Economics, Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, regulation
Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, called them a “brake on employment”:
The warning came after several competitors to Deutsche Post, the former state monopoly, announced redundancies and the cancellation of investments in response to Berlin’s decision to impose a minimum wage in the postal sector last week.
Minimum wages are shaping up as […]
Whither The Middle Class?
MichaelW on Nov 27 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Economics, Election 2008, Health Care, MichaelW's Page, regulation
Hillary and Obama agree on taxing Americans more, they just can’t agree on whether it’s the “middle” or “upper” class that they’re prepared to squeeze for votes (HT: Paul Caron):
Class, always an awkward topic in the United States, made a rare cameo appearance [Ed. note: Rare? Apparently Joel Achenbach is new to politics?] […]
Time to praise something admirable in politics and media
Lance on Oct 28 2007 | Filed under: Lance's Page, Libertarianism, Media, regulation
It is not often that we hear people willing to face the wrongheaded aspects of a view they hold. Jack Shafer is no friend of Rupert Murdoch, but it is refreshing to hear him take apart some of the main arguments against him and his influence. Kudos to him for taking on the unthinking shibboleths […]
Housing and the Red State-Blue State Divide
Lance on Oct 10 2007 | Filed under: Culture, Domestic Politics, Economics, Lance's Page, Society, Urban planning and development, regulation, social science
Virginia Postrel makes a point I will be exploring in more detail over the next few months in her latest essay at The Atlantic, the reasons behind the vast disparities in housing prices in our country. More interestingly she notices something I hadn’t really considered, at least not in the way she does. The cultural […]
Enough Already
Lance on Oct 10 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Health Care, Lance's Page, Libertarianism, Media, regulation
A couple of days ago I linked to McQ and Mark Steyn on the state of knowledge about the “poor family” whose child was used by Senate Democrats in their push to expand the SCHIP program. Here is why:
The media was taking their story and basically pushing the story verbatim, no questions asked, as […]
News Brief, À Cause Des Garçons Edition
Joshua Foust on Oct 10 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Economics, Foreign affairs, History, Law, Military Matters, Notes on the war, Technology, regulation
Cross-posted on The Conjecturer.
Defense & The War
Dear God. The USAF thinks it will win counterinsurgencies by copying the Viet Cong? These guys are almost as bad as the PMFs. In a must-read analysis, Abu Muqawama concludes, “This, America, is your uniformed military leadership. Be proud.” Oh I am.
“The reliable replacement warhead is a symptom.” […]
Left Wing Attacks on Right Wing Punditry
Keith_Indy on Oct 05 2007 | Filed under: Culture, Domestic Politics, Keith's Page, regulation
So, how low can they go?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1007/Elizabeth_Takes_on_Limbaugh.html
An Air America producer just sent over some transcript from an interview their Richard Greene (not our Richard Greene) conducted with Elizabeth Edwards, in which she questioned Rush Limbaugh’s Vietnam exemption:
” My classmates went to Vietnam, he did not. He was 4F. He had a medical disability, […]
News Brief, Capture/release Edition
Joshua Foust on Oct 03 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Military Matters, Notes on the war, Technology, regulation
Repeated at The Conjecturer.
Defense & the War
P.W. Singer on how no one is really asking the right questions about Blackwater and PMCs in general. Contrary to other arguments, it is a question of legality and accountability, since even employees accused of and fired for committing crimes like murder have not been prosecuted for it. But […]
Cities of Men
Lance on Sep 16 2007 | Filed under: Books, Culture, Lance's Page, Society, Urban planning and development, regulation, social science
I have not touched on the subject of the often hostile turn our culture has taken towards men, especially when it comes to their relationships with children. It is not that I don’t agree that that is a concern, in fact quite the opposite. I have in deeply personal ways been effected by this cultural […]
Urban Policy
Lance on Sep 16 2007 | Filed under: Economics, Lance's Page, Louisiana Politics, Urban planning and development, regulation
I recently did an interview, about an hour and a half long, on the ongoing, and fruitful, efforts to revitalize downtown Baton Rouge. We discussed a wide variety of related topics to development; economics, regulatory barriers, the work of the great Jane Jacobs, new urbanism, smart growth, the arts, affordable housing, architecture and design, aesthetics […]
Trying to find common cause on the size of the state
Lance on Sep 04 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Economics, Lance's Page, Libertarianism, regulation
One of Matthew Yglesias’ salient virtues as a man of the left is that he is economically literate. I realize that his audience on the left would be much smaller if he spent more time on things like this, but it is exactly the kind of talk that the Democratic party, and the left more […]
The Ever Expanding Reach of the State
Lance on Aug 24 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Lance's Page, Law, regulation
Radley nails this:
So I guess once you’re elected to Congress, you’re immune from drunk driving laws; you can stash the evidence that you’ve committed a crime in your office, because investigators aren’t allowed to search it; if you kill someone because you’ve got a lead foot and blew a stop sign, the taxpayers will cover […]
Regulation and disclosure often destroys information
Lance on Aug 23 2007 | Filed under: Economics, Investing, Lance's Page, regulation
From Robert Lawson:
I hopped on the Chipotle website the other day looking for nutritional information on my favorite meal (carnitas burrito, rice, black beans, mild, hot, and green salsa, lettuce). But thanks to the nanny state, THEY CAN’T TELL ME!.
Unfortunately, for the time being Chipotle can no longer publicly post calorie and nutritional information on […]
