The Open Market Blog

• By: Julie Walsh
• 08/29/2007

If you have two botanists discussing a certain plant species, and the first one believes that the plant will grow to 1 foot, but the…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/29/2007

Washington, D.C. is a wonderful place. Perhaps its hallmark is the lack of shame. A qualification for high office is being able to engage in…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/29/2007

There's been quite a buzz recently on the second anniversary of Hurricane Kartrina's destruction of New Orleans. Presidential contender Barack Obama even offered a…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/28/2007

In England, new centennarian Winnie Langley celebrates her 100th birthday by smoking her 170,000th cigarrette. Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/28/2007

New census bureau data shows a modest uptick in the number of Americans who do not have health insurance. (The number has not “soared,”…

• By: Iain Murray
• 08/28/2007

The UK Conservative Party has a “Quality of Life” policy group, headed by former Environment Secretary John Selwyn Gummer (whose most distinguished political moment involved…