The loathesome ex-House Speaker, who has been singularly awful on the Ground Zero mosque issue, reaches down into the septic tank for more : “I think the Congress has the ability to declare the area a national battlefield memorial because I think we should think of the World Trade Center as a battlefield site; this is a war,” he said And if that fails, he said, the state government should step in and use its considerable power to stymie the development.
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Gingrich: Use Government Power to Trample Property Rights of Muslims
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When President Obama made his pitch for the health care overhaul, he framed it this way: “Insurance reform; making sure that you can have choices in the marketplace for health insurance, and making it affordable for people; and reducing costs.” It was a pitch aimed at consumers: More access, more choices, lower prices. But over at InsureBlog, certified underwriter Bob Vineyard scans the health insurance market in Georgia and finds that, in the post-PPACA insurance market, there have definitely been changes—but not the ones Obama promised. From the highlight (lowlight?) reel: All but two health insurance companies have withdrawn from offering maternity benefits
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ObamaCare: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Worse
On the face of it, this looks like one of the cases where the ACLU should be commended for defending the free speech rights of people with whom it does not necessarily agree: Andy McDonel wants to fly the Gadsden (”Don’t Tread on Me”) flag from the roof of his house in Laveen, Arizona, and the state chapter of the ACLU says he is entitled to do so. The problem: McDonel is not fighting an intrusive local ordinance or boneheaded state law; he is fighting the rules of his own homeowners’ association, rules that he accepted when he bought his house.
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Let His Freak Flag Fly?
Is the U.S. on a certain path toward a debt crisis? And if so, at what point will it strike
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For Certain Is Debt for the Born
Matt Welch…is well, a moron.
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E-Mail of the Day
The Democratic National Committee…raised more than twice as much money in July as the Republican National Committee, and finished the month with $11 million on hand, compared with $5.3 million at the RNC.
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Cash Vs. Momentum in the Midterms: Will Flush Fat-Cat Dems Beat Rich-in-Love Reps?
Salisbury, North Carolina : The resisting-arrest conviction last week of Felicia Gibson has left a lot of people wondering. Can a person be charged with resisting arrest while observing a traffic stop from his or her own front porch?
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In Which Observing a Traffic Stop = Resisting Arrest
Writing at The Daily Caller , Christina Walsh of the Institute for Justice sheds more light on Montgomery, Alabama’s shameful assault on property rights: Imagine you come home from work one day to a notice on your front door that you have 45 days to demolish your house, or the city will do it for you. Oh, and you’re paying for it. This is happening right now in Montgomery, Ala., and here is how it works: The city decides it doesn’t like your property for one reason or another, so it declares it a “public nuisance.” It mails you a notice that you have 45 days to demolish your property, at your expense, or the city will do it for you (and, of course, bill you)…. The city wants to clear and ultimately sell-off the property of lower-income, mostly black Alabamans to higher-income developers, but it can’t do that through the state’s eminent domain law. So it found a backdoor, which also incidentally does not require the city to compensate property owners for their loss, but instead charges them.
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Standing Up for Property Rights in Montgomery, Alabama
Reason.tv presents Citizens Against Government Waste’s Porker of the Month for August 2010: Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY)! Conservation or nepotism
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Reason.tv: Porker of the Month (August 2010) – Rep. Hal Rogers!
Over at Vice magazine’s VBS.tv, senior editor Michael C. Moynihan talks Reason, libertarianism, and Glenn Beck
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Reason Writers Around Town: Michael C. Moynihan on VBS.tv
