Here’s an interesting moment from earlier today at a Cato Institute event on conservatives and foreign policy. Reps. Dana Rohrabacher, Tom McClintock, and Jimmy Duncan are asked how their fellow Republicans in Congress, looking back from 2010, feel about the decision to go to war in Iraq
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Hindsight is Golden
In a companion piece to Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Anthony Randazzo of Reason Foundation writes, The Internet and globalization have both made it possible to operate a business from virtually anywhere and still serve a wide range of customers.
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New at Reason: How Cities Can Take of Businesses
House Dems may use procedural trick to pass health care reform without actually voting on it . UN says global HIV raids rising among prostitutes, gays, and drug users due to laws against all three. McCain and Palin to reunite to boost McCain’s senate campaign.
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Reason Morning Links: House May “Deem” Health Care Passed, HIV Rates Up Among Risk Groups, Responding to Drug War Violence in Mexico
The Washington Post economics columnist is none too impressed by the president’s contributions to the health care debate: One job of presidents is to educate Americans about crucial national problems. On health care, Barack Obama has failed.
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Robert Samuelson on Obamacare: “It’s not now, and it’s not ‘us’”
While Reason is busy saving Cleveland , the city’s native son, resident moonbat , and former mayor Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D) is doing his part to save America. Kucinich says he refuses to vote for any of the current iterations of the healthcare reform bill, calling himself ” a firm no .” Kucinich, of course, opposes the bill from the left, lamenting the lack of a public option or protection for state level single payer plans
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Reason Saves Cleveland, Cleveland’s Kucinich Saves America
“I don’t like regulations,” says Amy Alkon, a syndicated advice columnist who blogs daily at AdviceGoddess.com .
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Reason.tv: Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Wants to Beat Manners Into Rude People
Some positive developments this week in two ongoing Mississippi stories I’ve been covering. First, the Mississippi Court of Appeals has rejected the state’s motion for a rehearing in the Cory Maye case. Maye was convicted of capital murder for killing a police officer who broke into his home during a 2001 drug raid.
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Good News From Mississippi
Appearing on Real Time With Bill Maher , amateur Latin America scholar Sean Penn details his recent humanitarian trip to Haiti, reveals that he has started an NGO, and praises the United States military’s reconstruction efforts in Port-au-Prince, calling it the “most noble [military] mission since World War II.” (Penn has apparently forgotten the 2004 operation to provide relief to parts of tsunami-ravaged South Asia.) But as is his wont, Penn couldn’t get through the interview without reference to the beneficent Venezuelan and Cuban governments (who supplied “narcotics” in Haiti, despite their own drug shortages) and how Hugo Chavez is unfairly maligned in the United States media. How should one combat this misinformation campaign?
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Sean Penn Wants Me Thrown In Jail
Now run my health care! Aren’t there a coupla wars going on? A financial crisis? Health-care debates
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Thank God The FCC is Finally Looking Into Dr. Phil’s 2006 Show About Masturbation!
Yesterday, I blogged about the president of the U.K.’s National Federation of Fish Fryers, who found new bureaucratic guidelines about the width of chips “totally unfair,” and thus demanded that their competitors get screwed , too: ‘We will be opposing this as much as we can until they make it a level playing field and start asking McDonald’s, KFC and Burger King to change their chip sizes too.’ Today brings a new installment of the convince-government-punish-your-competitors sweepstakes, this one in the U.S. of A.
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DVD Rental Kiosks Are Corrupting the Children Hurting My Business
