“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
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A front-page story in USA Today highlights the “growing popular acceptance of marijuana,” as reflected in polls, ballot initiatives, and legislation.
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USA Today Notes ‘Growing Popular Acceptance’ of Pot
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?
The Cayman Island Sea Turtle Farm was established by entrepreneur and libertarian hero Antony Fisher in 1968. Unfortunately, the farm went bankrupt when the trade in sea turtle products was banned internationally. Now a government-owned corporation, the farm is a huge tourist attraction supplying turtle meat to the local market; it also releases thousands of turtles into the wild.
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New at Reason: Ronald Bailey on the Deliciousness of Sea Turtle Steak
Mayor and former wannabe governor now downgraded to wannabe lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom wants his people to know …. the truth! about those awful little walkie-talkies they are constantly yammering into. Newsom has proposed an ordinance that all cell phones sold in his city be given a warning label similar to those placed on cigarettes
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Cell Phone Warning Labels in San Francisco?
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…
From our April issue, Editor in Chief Matt Welch looks at President Barack Obama’s slippery relationship with the truth.
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New at Reason: Matt Welch on Obama’s Habit of Telling Untruths
Is marijuana responsible for John Patrick Bedell’s suicidal assault on the Pentagon? Yes, says Washington Post blogger Charles Lane, although his theory of the plant’s criminogenic effects is slightly more sophisticated than Harry Anslinger’s
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Did Marijuana Kill John Patrick Bedell?
