This is strange, disturbing, and darkly amusing.

Disturbing the Peace: On the inalienable right to "excessively noisy sex"

"This case sheds harsh light not only on the Victorian-style petty prudishness of Britain’s rulers, who seriously believe they can make sexually expressive women timid again by dragging them to court, but on the tyranny of anti- ( Read more... )

John Stossel, More Health Insurance is Not the Answer

Obama and his Senate allies would limit competition by requiring insurers to cover everyone for the same "fair" price. No "cherry picking," the president says. No charging healthy people less.

They call this "community rating," and it sounds fair. No more cruel "discrimination" against people who ( Read more... )

For those who are interested, a quick and impartial primer on how the Government tries to "manage" the economy, followed by my own satirical analysis of its effects:

Economics and Crisis

The Federal Government utilizes two methods in its attempts to manage the economy.  The first is “fiscal policy,” in which Congress itself (often guided by the ( Read more... )

Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In

"WASHINGTON-A panel of top business leaders testified before Congress about the worsening recession Monday, demanding the government provide Americans with a new irresponsible and largely illusory economic bubble in which to invest.

...According to investment experts, now ( Read more... )

New Jersey red light cameras focus on right-turn tickets, even though state and federal data show this rarely causes accidents.

Linked from Fark.com:
"Politicians: Ticket cameras will stop slaughter of pedestrians by drivers making rolling right turns on red.
Study: No pedestrians have been killed that way.
Politicians: Stop confusing us with facts."

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The Right to Earn a Living Under Attack

"In Louisiana it is illegal to sell and arrange flowers without permission from the government. Aspiring florists must pass a subjective licensing exam that is graded by existing florists, who have a direct incentive to keep new competitors from entering the market. Thus the failure rate is higher than that ( Read more... )

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/09/report-illinois-governor-taken-federal-custody/

"Fitzgerald also said the 76-page FBI affidavit alleges that Blagojevich was taped conspiring to sell or trade Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat for financial and other personal benefits for himself and his wife, including an annual salary of $250,000-$300,000 ( Read more... )

Ill. Gov. arrested in Obama successor probe


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For the economic case against interventionism and the government's downright asininity, we turn to Bob Murphy's Open Letter to Gary Becker re: Depressions:

"the business cycle is an unintended consequence of government intervention in the monetary and banking system. Specifically, the central bank (the Federal Reserve in the United States) pushes ( Read more... )

Gotta love it when an irrational tax system that punishes capital, a hyper-regulatory bureaucratic structure that stifles business growth and efficiency, and a body of economic policies that floods the market with unbacked liquidity while diluting real wealth, all combine to cause one of the worst economic fuckups since the Great Depression.  And ( Read more... )