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The Government’s Insane War on Small Magnets

Image: Ari Armstrong To follow up on the story, “Zen Magnets Stands Up to Abusive Government Agency“: Shihan Qu of Zen Magnets issued a statement yesterday on why he’s standing up to the abusive,...

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Dems’ New Taxes and Regulations Hit Colorado Tomorrow

Image: Wikimedia Commons A media release from Colorado House Republicans reports that two of the Democrats’ onerous, rights-violating laws go into effect tomorrow: “Senate Bill 029 will impose more...

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Denver Gay Bar Hit with Antidiscrimination Suit

Image: Guillaume Paumier According to the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Denver Wrangler, a gay bar, illegally “discriminated against a man when a bouncer denied him entry last year...

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Boulder County Puts “Little Liz” Out of Work

Image: Wikimedia Commons Boulder County bureaucrat Carrie Haverfield thinks there’s an “ick factor” to carnival goers having their photos taken with “Little Liz,” “a 29-inch-tall woman from Haiti,” so...

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Amazon Is Wrong to Sanction Antitrust Action against Hachette

Image: James Duncan Davidson In an August 9 email to participants of Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon argued that publishers should price their ebooks at $9.99 or less and that the publisher Hachette...

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Denver’s “Affordable Housing” Mandates Made Housing More Expensive

Image: Complete Colorado As Randal O’Toole writes for Complete Colorado, Denver’s so-called “affordable housing” ordinance has made housing in Denver less affordable for most people. As O’Toole...

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Fort Collins Passes Bag Tax (that’s Not Really a Tax)

Image: Norman Ack The city government of Fort Collins, Colorado, just passed a five-cent tax on disposable shopping bags, set to be implemented on April 1, 2015. Only, legally, they can’t call it a...

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Violating Human Rights in the Name of Anti-Discrimination Laws

Image: David Shankbone According to a report from the Heritage Foundation, on August 8 the New York State Division of Human Rights “fined Cynthia and Robert Gifford $13,000 for acting on their belief...

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How Shipping Regs Hamper International Free Trade

Image: Grolltech Recently an acquaintance of mine described to me his job. From what I can tell, his job is to help people fill out bureaucratic paperwork for shipping goods to and from Canada (and I...

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How Beer Regs Throttle the Brewery Industry

Image: Quinn Dombrowski Here in Colorado, many craft brewers have sided with liquor stores to keep it illegal for grocery stores to sell anything other than 3.2 beer (except for one store in a chain)....

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Hickenlooper: Bloomberg “One of the Greatest Mayors” in History

Is it any wonder that Colorado Democrats are taking marching orders from Michael Bloomberg? Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper write a “fawning letter” to Bloomberg and called him “one of the greatest...

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Venezuela Shocker: Price Controls Cause Shortages

You mean that government cannot arbitrarily lower the prices on food and household items without disrupting the supply of those items? Who would have thought it? No one except every real economist...

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Krannawitter’s Elegant Solution to Regulatory Overreach

Thomas Krannawitter has a straight-forward but far-reaching proposal for reforming America's regulatory state: Turn every federal regulatory agency into an advisory group, with the power to advise...

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Even Bernie Sanders Recognizes a Minimum Wage Can Throw People Out of Work

Bernie Sanders, along with everyone who advocates minimum wage laws, at least implicitly recognizes that those laws can throw some people out of work.

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FDA Deserves Some Blame for Unnecessary Teeth Drilling

Recently my wife had to pay $1,500 out of pocket to crown a molar. This was necessary because, years ago, a dentist over-drilled a cavity in the tooth and then packed it badly, resulting in the tooth...

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The Moral Case Against Minimum Wage Laws

The legally mandated minimum wage is an economic issue, of course. But it is more fundamentally a moral issue. Unfortunately, usually only the left, with its claims about the alleged fairness of higher...

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Hickenlooper: Bloomberg “One of the Greatest Mayors” in History

Is it any wonder that Colorado Democrats are taking marching orders from Michael Bloomberg? Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper write a “fawning letter” to Bloomberg and called him “one of the greatest...

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Amazon Is Wrong to Sanction Antitrust Action against Hachette

In an August 9 email to participants of Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon argued that publishers should price their ebooks at $9.99 or less and that the publisher Hachette is wrong to try to price them...

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The Government’s Insane War on Small Magnets

To follow up on the story, “Zen Magnets Stands Up to Abusive Government Agency“: Shihan Qu of Zen Magnets issued a statement yesterday on why he’s standing up to the abusive, rights-violating Consumer...

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Dems’ New Taxes and Regulations Hit Colorado Tomorrow

A media release from Colorado House Republicans reports that two of the Democrats’ onerous, rights-violating laws go into effect tomorrow: “Senate Bill 029 will impose more than $13 million in fees on...

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