Supreme Court Justice John Roberts tosses belated barb at Obama for attacking SCOTUS at SOTU. Israel announces new settlements in East Jerusalem, upstaging Vice President Biden’s meeting with Palestinian leaders
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Reason Morning Links: Roberts Scolds Obama, Israel Disses Biden, Mukasey Slams (Liz) Cheney
“We allow the insurance industry to run wild in this country,” President Obama declared on Monday. “We can’t have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people.” Despite this rhetoric, Senior Editor Jacob Sullum argues, Obama’s plan to tame health insurers would boost their business, protect them from competition, and guarantee their profits, all at the expense of consumers and taxpayers
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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Obama’s Fake Fight With Insurers
This is a chunk of text from Bill A10129 , introduced on Friday in the New York state assembly, which “Prohibits the use of salt by restaurants in the preparation of food by restaurants.” Naturally, the penalties for the use of salt while cooking food are totally proportionate and reasonable: $1,000 a pinch? $1,000 a grain? If the bill passes—which we can only hope it won’t, since it is the ravings of a madman in legislative form—it looks like the folks at most-expensive.net are going to have to revisit their entry on the world’s most expensive salt .
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$1,000 Salt Coming to New York Restaurants?
On one side, me, on the other side, one of the most pro-labor opinion journalists in the business, the self-described ” Democratic socialist ” Harold Meyerson (read Reason on Meyerson here ). The segment, lasting a half-hour, is called ” Labor Love–Lost
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Listen to Matt Welch Debate Harold Meyerson About Unions on KCRW’s “Politics of Culture” Program Today at 2:30 California Time
Reason Contributing Editor Tim Cavanaugh will appear on Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business News show today to discuss the fiscal crisis in Greece and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s financial life coaching session with President Obama. Starting at 6pm EST on Fox Business Channel
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Reason Around Town: Tim Cavanaugh Goes Greek With the Number One Name In Business…Cavuto! 6pm EST on FBN
Philip Jenkins, who has a history of writing intelligently about religion in the Third World, has an engaging article in The American Conservative about Muslim/Christian conflicts in Indonesia, Nigeria, and elsewhere in Asia and Africa. Jenkins rejects Samuel Huntington’s simplistic Clash of Civilizations narrative and its “notion of a world divided among vast religious-cultural blocs,” because it “assumes that these units remain fairly constant, so that tension occurs only along their periphery
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Interfaith Dialogue…With Weaponry
Get yer Baileys out! Longtime Reason science correspondent Ronald Bailey will be making two speaking appearances in the greater New York City area next week, at Princeton Univ.
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Attn, NYC-Area Reasonoids! Two Chances to See Ron Bailey Live TODAY & TOMORROW! TONIGHT!
Who said this recently on the hustings for a big-state governorship?: “I advocate returning to limited government, accompanied by a minimal amount of confiscatory taxation to support only essential services along with Pay as Go budgeting; means testing for all government assistance programs; abolition of all member item pork barrel spending, balanced budgets; actual surpluses and payments to reduce long term state debt” And whose night table is weighted down with “economic texts by free market illuminaries Frederich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ludvig von Mises.” And who is ”reportedly a big fan of the writings of capitalist philosopher…Ayn Rand”? And who has real-life, ultra-private-sector business experience? Go here to find out
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Finally, a Candidate With Ultra-Private-Sector Experience Who Reads Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Rand…
Not content with scapegoating their Olympic officials for Team Russia’s poor performance, a government-sponsored Russian youth group has turned on McDonald’s. To make their case against the international grease-merchants, the group staged Olympic reenactments with obese athletes outside a Moscow McDonald’s
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Astroturf Russian Youth Movement Not Lovin’ McDonald’s
At Cato’s website is a celebration of the three women who can fairly be credited with launching the modern American libertarian movement, Ayn Rand, Isabel Paterson, and Rose Wilder Lane. You might also want to see my May 2005 Reason magazine essay on Paterson , which discusses her relationship with Rand and Lane at length as well
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Women’s History Month for Libertarians
