Frequent Reason contributor Brendan O’Neill is not a fan of Tony Blair’s new memoir: Never mind his claim about seeing the queen washing dishes after a barbecue at Balmoral. Forget his description of John Prescott’s affair as a ‘silly sex scandal’. Put to the back of your mind his ‘drink problem’
“Libertarian Democrat” Terry Michael asks whether the Wash Post is going downmarket: “Man Accused of spraying semen led a normal life. Suspect never had any issues. Showed no indication of bizarre behavior.” You just read the headline and sub-heds for a story in the Metro section of last Sunday’s (August 15, 2010) issue of the ink-on-dead-trees edition of The Washington Post
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Is The Washington Post Going Tabloid (Style-Wise, Not Size-Wise)
Recent International Monetary Fund statements on U.S. fiscal solvency have been alarming
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Did IMF Say USA Is DOA?
In 1941 the Supreme Court overturned a Pennsylvania law that required noncitizens to register with the state, carry an “alien identification card,” and present it to police officers upon demand. The Court said the law conflicted with a federal policy, based on treaty obligations and the constitutional principle of equal protection, that sought to “protect the personal liberties of law-abiding aliens” and keep them “free from the possibility of inquisitorial practices and police surveillance,” including “indiscriminate and repeated interception and interrogation by public officials.” Senior Editor Jacob Sullum says Arizona’s immigration law, enjoined by a federal judge last week, raises similar problems. View this article.
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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Arizona’s Immigration Law
The PPACA calls for each state to set up a health care “exchange”—a government-run marketplace where people can purchase subsidized, regulated health insurance (as Philip Klein said, “government-designed policies from a government store” ). Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius has started to work with state governors, but it looks like the process won’t be easy : Ms. Seblius’s efforts come as some states prepare for friction with her department over the early provisions in the law, since they say they are underprepared to implement many aspects of it.
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Have Faith! ObamaCare Will Definitely Work…Eventually
A good piece in today’s Wall Street Journal explains why the generous benefits offered to public sector workers can’t last forever in an era when We Are Out of Money . But the article contains this passing assertion and quote: The more generous benefits given to government workers are part of a larger trade-off, according to economists
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Better Pay? Better Benefits? Why Not Have Both?
Regular readers will thrill once again to our 13-second masterpiece above. The news hook?
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Dramatic Olbermann v. Daily Caller
Anti-corporatist crusader Timothy P. Carney explains how “Obama is not ‘anti-business,’….he’s just anti-free market.” Case in point: The president’s National Export Initiative, which aims to double U.S.
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The Government From Boeing
A cartoon from Barry Deutsch. I suspect his encounters with libertarians tend to take place in blog comment threads. I also suspect that Hit & Run ’s commenters could come up with a dozen-plus categories he missed, along with the requisite jokes at their/our expense
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Akbar and Jeff Shrugged
The Michael Phelps of terrible legislative ideas rips another brainfart in our general direction: In an effort to slow the exodus of U.S. telephone work to overseas services, Sen.
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Chuck Schumer’s Call-Center Tax
