Blog Supreme Court Strikes Down Washington Gun Ban By: Hans Bader 06/26/2008 The Supreme Court voted 5-to-4 to strike down Washington, D.C.’s municipal ban on handguns, ruling that the ban violated the Second Amendment, as…
Blog Statistical Insignificance? By: Lene Johansen 06/26/2008 I seem to remember from statistics class that anything less than 95 percent probability is junk science. This is an editorial from the most recent…
Blog AmEx reaps “windfall profits” from antitrust suit By: Fran Smith 06/26/2008 American Express will be $4 billion richer, thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice and a 2004 antitrust suit against Visa and MasterCard. According…
Blog Bond Ratings Scam: Feds Protect Failure By: Hans Bader 06/25/2008 The Wall Street Journal explains how federal and state regulations block competition with the rating agencies that fueled the mortgage crisis by giving ridiculously rosey ratings…
Blog In UK, Big Brother to Watch AND Listen By: Alex Harris 06/25/2008 For a while now, the UK has had a fairly extensive network of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras recording its citizens’ movements in the…
Blog Another sweet deal for Big Sugar? By: Fran Smith 06/25/2008 Environmentalists are ecstatic over the state of Florida’s announced purchase from United States Sugar of a vast tract of land —…
