The British Government now requires restaurants to obtain special permission to serve you your favorite burger. And the FSA doesn’t just want to control where restaurants get their meat from; it also wants to control how they cook it.
Ryan held a conference call with his members yesterday to assure them that he has no intention of shutting down the government despite what the White House appears to be angling for. He promised not to let his failed TrumpCare bill get in the way. Some Republicans in Congress are worried they'll be blamed by next year's midterm voters if there's a government shutdown. Those worries are not part of Steve Bannon's calculus.
New Drug War appointees Chris Christie and Tom Marino have passed and signed well-intentioned laws intended to help curb opioid use and abuse. But similar initiatives have made the situation worse in the past, and the renewed energy being put into the anti-drug task force will surely do the same.
Showerheads used to be easy to hack. And never doubt the need to do so. What do we want out of a shower? We want fantastic amounts of water pouring down on our heads, ideally like the waterfall we see in movies and art. That requires pulling out the government-mandated flow stopper after the purchase and before the installation.
Why does government hate the gold standard … or any real standard for that matter? At the heart of government’s attack on gold, silver, bitcoin, and other commodity standards is an outright hatred for accountability and private property, and a real love for theft.
On major economic issues, it does not appear that Republican control of Washington makes much of a difference. Hopefully regulatory reform will be a different story.
The New York Times has issued a major blast against the gig economy, and it has all the features of this genre of writing: find anything in the sector that might be improved, or is improving, and treat it as something government should crush immediately, regardless of the results for people who are actually choosing in favor of this form of market participation. An editorial as bad as this calls for a good fisking.
Advocates for big government often equate expanding government with concern for the poor. But reality speaks to the contrary: Expanding government often has very harmful effects on the poor.
