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Mandatory Purchase
In a piece in Saturday's Washington Examiner, I examine the parallels between auto insurance and health insurance, and, for the most part, find that…
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Live Earth’s Ratings Meltdown
As Iain noted earlier, in the UK, TV ratings for Live Earth were dismal for an event so hyped. Now the Nielsen overnight…
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Bad apple doesn’t fall far from the rotten tree
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Ambushed by the Unruh Act
California's Unruh Act is a trial lawyer's dream, and a nightmare for the rule of law. It has been interpreted to ban "discrimination" against customers…
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Irrationality of Mandated Recycling
I’ve said it a million times: Recycling isn’t environmentally beneficial if it uses more resources than it saves. That is why many government-mandated recycling programs…
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The Tragi-Comedy that is California Energy Policy
For the setting of this melodrama, we have California foolishly passing AB32 to reduce her greenhouse gas emissions 11 percent by 2010, 25 percent by…