Reason
The United States of Regulation: Compliance Costs Consume Huge Chunks of Our Economy
Progressive Railroading
Obama administration sends four-year transportation bill to Congress
Meanwhile, Competitive Enterprise Institute transportation policy expert Marc Scribner was more critical. Bailing out the Highway Trust Fund would violate "the long-standing user-pays/user-benefits principle in…
Trib Live
The Thursday wrap
The Competitive Enterprise Institute calculates that the cost of U.S. federal regulations now is larger than the economies of all but nine countries in the…
Washington Times
Bureaucracy doesn’t just hurt — it kills
With all this outreach to give things away, how big is this federal bureaucracy and its red tape? Clyde Wayne Crews at the Competitive Enterprise…
Citation
Inside the Beltway: Federal regs — they cost $1.9 trillion
One News Now
Transportation Analyst: Hands Off Driverless Cars, Uncle Sam
A transportation policy analyst warns that lawmakers and regulators should steer clear of driverless vehicles when they arrive. Marc Scribner is a fellow for the…
Investor's Business Daily
U.S. Regulatory Costs Are World’s No. 10 Economy
The Blaze
New Report: How the Obama Admin. Has Far Surpassed George W. Bush in Pushing Costly New Regulations Without Congressional Approval
The Hill
Libertarian groups slam online gambling ban
Daily Caller
The Federal Government Now Consumes 31 Percent Of The US Economy
The federal government now consumes 31 percent of the U.S. economy due to trillions in spending and thousands of pages of costly regulations, according to…
Washington Examiner
Average U.S. household spends more on federal regulations than for health care, food or transportation
Here's a sobering fact likely known to few Americans outside of the nation's capital: The federal government is the only government on earth that collects…
Washington Examiner
Libertarian groups slam online gambling ban
Georgia Policy
Steer Clear of Overregulating Autonomous Autos
If anything drives transportation policy as a solution to congestion and mobility challenges in Georgia, it should be the recommendations in a new report from…
Forbes
Ninth Circuit Chucks Apple MagSafe Settlement, Chides Judge’s Oversight
Forbes reports on the settlement of a class action against Apple which would have paid the lawyers $3 million but less than $1 million to…
CQ Researcher
Self-Driving Cars Promise Safer Highways if Regulators Keep Hands Off, Study Says
Wider adoption of technology to allow vehicles to drive themselves promises to usher in a new era of safer motoring — as long as lawmakers…
Law 360
9th Circ. Vacates Apple Adapter Settlement Over Attys’ Fees
Law 360 reports on CCAF's objection to the Apple adapter settlement that was unfair to class members. Ted Frank of The Center for…
Overlawyered
Schuette v. Coalition, in tweets
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court, over two dissents, ruled that the voters of Michigan were within their rights under the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause to…
Overlawyered
Schools Roundup
More applications of New Jersey’s pioneering “anti-bullying” law. And will it stand up in court? [Hans Bader, earlier here, etc.]…
Law 360
Pella Window Deal Leaves Class In The Cold, 7th Circ. Told
Law 360 mentions Ted Frank's comments on whether the Pella Window settlement benefit class members. Theodore Frank, who represents a separate objector, added…
Trib Live
The secret ballot: Protect it
A new report on the United Auto Workers' attempt to organize Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., makes clear the need to better protect workers' right…
Washington Examiner
Examiner Editorial: The ‘soft despotism’ of regulation imposes high costs on Americans
Oregon Catalyst
In opposition to Jackson County Measure 15-119 GMO ban
Wall Street Journal
Regulator Without Peer
Free Beacon
IG: DOE Ignored Internal Expert’s Advice in Subsidizing Bankrupt Solar Company
The Blaze
What Obama Isn’t Telling You About the ‘All-of-the-Above’ Energy Strategy
Politico
White House Calls in the Deans — China Growth Slows — Bloomberg Says He’s Going to Heaven
COURT MOVES AGAINST PART OF DODD-FRANK — CEI’s John Berlau: “[The recent] ruling of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that Dodd-Frank’s ‘conflict minerals’ disclosure…
Heartland Institute
Bill Would Force Florida Brewers to Pay Distributors for Their Own Beer
Michelle Minton, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Fellow who specializes in alcohol regulation, said although all the states but Washington have a “three-tiered” system for alcohol…
Free Beacon
Begich Earmarked Millions for Bankrupt Green Energy Company
Power Line
Lilly Ledbetter and the Lie That Will Not Die
When a lie becomes an article of faith not just for a movement for an entire political party, that lie is probably here to stay.
Overlawyered
Free Speech Roundup
New Jersey ruling letting parents be sued over kids’ Facebook posts will chill speech [Hans Bader/CEI, earlier]…
Weekly Standard
Monotony Motors
Weekly Standard
More Profits, Fewer Jobs, But Many Fewer Workers, Too
William Galston makes a valid point with his comment that low interest rates may be counterproductive in the country’s search for more employment (“Soaring Profits…
Fox News
Critics say ‘transparent’ administration anything but open about federal regulations
Federal agencies are required to report all the regulatory actions they have under consideration in what's known as the Unified Agenda twice a year. In…
Townhall
Wind Blows
Platts
Bay nomination process marked so far by fewer fireworks, outcry by free market groups
Review Journal
Nevada prepares for arrival of fracking
Sun News
Turning lights on
Washington Times
The Light Fantastic
Washington Times
EDITORIAL: Lights-out ‘Earth Hour’ is 60 minutes wasted
Politico
Shut Up With All The Plane Silence Talk, CEI Says
Politico
Turn ON the Lights and Do Something Constructive for the Planet
Daily Caller
White House: raising minimum wage would help women
Fox Business
Small Biz vs. ObamaCare One Step Closer to Supreme Court
Today’s hearing brings the case one step closer to the Supreme Court, according to Kazman, as neither side is likely to bow out. “It was…
Free Beacon
A Tale of Two Cities
Cato
Kansas Court Wrests School-Budget Decisions from Voters
Class Action Countermeasures
Guest Post – The Opt-Out Refund
Class Action Countermeasures features Adam Shulman's and his solution for settlements called the "Opt Out Refund." Adam Schulman of the Center for Class Action Fairness…
National Review
Man vs. Wild — California Water Crisis
National Review’s Law and Disorder Debate, “Man vs. Wild: California in Crisis,” took place in Washington, D.C., on February 28, 2014. The keynote speakers were…
Fox News
SolarCity’s skyrocketing stock dependent on government tax giveaways
National Review
The EPA’s Anti-Transparency Antics
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