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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

In 1992, Jim Gray, a conservative judge in conservative Orange County, California, held a press conference during which he recommended that we rethink our drug laws. Back then, it took a great deal of courage to suggest that the war on drugs was a failed policy. Today, more and more Americans are coming to the realization that prohibition’s costs—whether measured in lives and liberties lost or dollars wasted—far exceed any possible or claimed benefits.

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Recently at Reason.tv: Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups That Benefit From Drug Prohibition

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…

First Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) surrenders his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee amid an ethics investigation. Now Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) proposes an idea that she hopes will help her make good on her promise to help lead “the most ethical Congress in history”— a party-wide ban on earmarks

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Reason.tv: Pork Party House: Where DC insiders go for tax-subsidized fun!

By now, talking smack about environmental doomsayer and neo- Malthusian Paul Ehrlich should fall solidly under the heading “dead horse, the beating of.” But Ehrlich is some sort of zombie pony: no matter how many times he is proven wrong, he rises again as a commentator, consulted and quoted by otherwise discriminating people. He was wrong about global starvation, wrong about pesticide-induced riots, wrong about race war, and wrong about nuclear annihilation. Now, naturally, he has taken up the cause of global warming

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Paul Ehrlich Goes Up Against “Well-Funded, Merciless Enemies” to Save the Earth from Certain Destruction. Again.