Term Limits, Part I
All attempts at Campaign Finance Reform in these United States have failed.
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Category: Regulation
Chapter 15 – The Stay
From the beginning I’ve had the sense that they have mischarged the offense, perhaps intentionally.
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Chapter 14 – Secretary Cohen’s “Four Points”
In December of 1997, the anthrax vaccine manufacturer was shut down and could not manufacture anything related to the AVA.
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Chapter 12: The DoD “Evolves” on the Anthrax Vaccine
During the hearings on the Nixon impeachment, Senator Howard Baker (R-TN) asked the now famous question: “What did the President know and when did he know it?”
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Chapter 11: United States v. Stonewall, July 2000
I had defended Marines and sailors facing a lot more time or charged with much more serious crimes, yet I was more nervous than I had ever been before walking into court.
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Chapter 9 – The History of the Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed (AVA)
The first use of a human anthrax vaccine took place in 1954.
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Chapter 5 – The FDA, DHHS, & Vaccines: Anthrax Slides By
Before 1962, vaccines, drugs, and other such products did not undergo nearly the kind of scrutiny that they do today in order to become licensed. It wasn’t until the thalidomide disaster of the 1960’s that federal regulation of drugs came to be what it is today.
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Scrot…. SCOTUS summary 2018-2019 session
I tried to work in some snark into what is a really dry topic, but there’s only so much snark you can work into some devastatingly boring subject matter.
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A day at the park
In the summer of ’81, I was 15 years old. I wasn’t your average teen.
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Free to Ask Permission
A Leap at the Wheel is back again to demonstrate that personal liberty only helps out the most privileged members of society at the expense of people with neurological disorders.
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Standard Libertarian Disclaimer Episode 2: EPA
I think that environmental law is the single biggest issue I “struggle” with when I do thought experiments about the philosophy of libertarianism. How does self- and property ownership interact with the externalities caused by the things that you do pursuant with your ownership of yourself and your property? There are many answers, but the currently implemented one is the EPA.
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Poll: Zoning
What say you?
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Economics Corner with Paul Krugman and Winston’s Mom
The one where he yammers on about Bernie.
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I’m on Vacation
Did I just phone this one in liek last week? You decide.
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Portland Boat Tours
“Hello?” I asked. Who would call me at 0538? I looked at the call ID and predictably it said,...
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A libertarian analysis of Chevron deference
Why the hell would I bother to give deference to a damn evil oil company?
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Simple Things the Government Screws Up Part III: Burning Incompetency
There’s nothing better than that first chilly evening of the year.
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Simple Things the Government Screws Up Part I : Low Flow
Know what’s wrong with Big Government? banginglc1 will tell you.
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An Eight Year Journey
I started smoking somewhere around the age of 14.
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