Will Wilkinson draws attention to one result of the latest Cato/Fraser Economic Freedom of the World Report : Canada is now ranked as freer than the U.S. of Archie; 7th freest compared to our 8th. I’m not prepared to argue with their economic calcalations; still, Canada certainly remains a bad place to speak your mind about certain things. In other Canada freedom news: amazing and celebrated alt-cartoonist Chester Brown is running for parliament as a Libertarian. Many years back, I wrote an article that generated more hate mail than anything I ever wrote--over 200 emails--for the website suck.com. (Sorry, the late, lamented website Suck.com.) It was a bit of japery mocking Canadian attempts to distinguish themselves from America. I never thought "more freedom" would be one of those distinguishing characteristics.
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"It Is Quite a Punt"From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-09-15 17:14:00
Always good for us rah rah capitalism types to keep in mind that sweeping out the dusty corners of private enterprise will reveal just as many dunces as when one does the same thing in government. From today’s Telegraph : Were it not so serious, the role reversal would be hilarious. For years, US governments have called in titans of finance for advice on how to run federal affairs more effectively. Now, those clever clogs who were once deemed to have all the answers are asking diffi...
more New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Sarah Palin’s Pot ProblemFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-09-17 04:00:00
Before she was elected governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin admitted to smoking marijuana. But as Senior Editor Jacob Sullum writes, she now opposes marijuana legalization and favors the arrest of other Alaskans for something she once did with impunity. Read the whole thing here.
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more D.C. Finally Hops on the Heller TruckFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-09-16 18:58:00
Mike DeBonis, one of my colleagues at Washington City Paper, sends word that the D.C. Council has removed the machinge gun clause from the DC gun law, as well as lifted the restrictions requiring that hand guns be kept disassembled: The mayor has just signed the emergency gun bill passed earlier today by the D.C. Council, reports mayoral spokesperson Mafara Hobson . That means semiautomatic handguns are now legal and you no longer have to have D.C. police perform a ballistics test befo...
more Foreign Policy Mag on Obama’s 10 Worst IdeasFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-09-16 17:02:00
I think they are wrong to bash him on number 4, I’m agnostic for the moment about number 10 (leaning toward thinking it doesn’t make much real difference either way), but otherwise, Foreign Policy has a nice summation of 10 boneheaded notions of our conceivably maybe possibly probably next president, Barack Obama. Stresses mistakes on trade, war-waging, and general giveaway boondoggles to (or targeted attacks on) various special interests.
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