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,...
View ArticleDems’ 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...
View ArticleDenver 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...
View ArticleBoulder 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...
View ArticleAmazon 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...
View ArticleDenver’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...
View ArticleFort 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...
View ArticleViolating 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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)....
View ArticleHickenlooper: 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...
View ArticleVenezuela 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...
View ArticleKrannawitter’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...
View ArticleEven 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.
View ArticleFDA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHickenlooper: 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...
View ArticleAmazon 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDems’ 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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