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• By: Michelle Minton
• 01/22/2010

Insurance commissioner of Washington State, Mike Kreidler wants the legislature to ban the use of credit scores from the measurements insurers use in determining…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 01/15/2010

Coastal residents in NC are trying to fight a deal that would allow insurance companies to increase the rates for property insurance in these…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/10/2009

As I blogged about earlier this month over at the Objective Standard, states are beginning to…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/09/2009

While it is certainly is good news that the state of Maryland hasn’t denied permission to developers hoping to install slots in a new…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/03/2009

Let’s face it, in this era, liberty-minded folk are in the minority (as if there was a time we were the majority). However, just because…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/20/2009

Earlier this week my colleague Ryan Young posted a blog about the FCC’s proposal to increase access to and decrease the cost of broadband…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/19/2009

More cash/Fewer Clunkers Via the Von Mises blog:  According to the consumer pricing index report released by the Bureau of Labor…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/15/2009

Here’s an interesting video from ReasonTV (a Reason Magazine offshoot) that mimics the popular UPS whiteboard commercials. In this video Nick…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/13/2009

The FDA is getting into the business of mixing drinks.  Employing a dangerously questionable array of regulatory powers, the agency is trying to determine if…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/28/2009

The Obama administration is patting itself on the back for saving the jobs of thousands of educators by doling out stimulus funds earlier in the…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 09/03/2009

If you live in the general Washington, DC metro area you should be prepared for a fun-filled, traffic jamming time the weekend of September 11th.

• By: Michelle Minton
• 08/14/2009

That is if you find the usual crowd of holier than thou, environment-angelical, yuppie-types slightly annoying to navigate through while you purchase your organic produce…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 08/05/2009

Delaware is hitting back at the sports leagues lobbing threats in response to the state’s plan to legalize gambling on…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 07/01/2009

It is truly amazing to me that some people who call themselves “liberal,” “progressive,” and “tolerant,” are so irrationally afraid and intolerant of…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 06/18/2009

Since the beginning of his presidential campaign, I noticed something about Obama’s style of oration (and I’m not the only one). He…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 06/09/2009

Sin taxes are often justified by claiming that the item/behavior taxes costs the taxpayer money. By applying a tax, the government claims it can…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 06/08/2009

I don’t think there is anything that pisses off eco-socialists more than a free market answer to their problem of climate change. They simply don’t…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 05/19/2009

Maryland does not have enough money in the budget to pay for the…

• By: Eli Lehrer, Michelle Minton
• 04/16/2009

"If international governing bodies fail at the task, which repeated pirate attacks seem to indicate, the US government should do something," she said in a…