Category Archives: Regulation

Coronavirus 1, American Regulation 0

One reason the coronavirus fight has been hampered is America’s lumbering regulatory state: Entrepreneur Elon Musk, President Donald Trump, and New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo have each touted chloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria, as a promising treatment option … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus: The Bullshit Overreaction Phase

I was not on the “oh don’t panic the Wuhan coronavirus is just the flu” bus. It’s a real pandemic with, as far as we can tell, a death rate about ten times that of the flu. People are dropping … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for November 15, 2019

Enjoy a Friday LinkSwarm filled with news from the impeachment farce: Summary of George Kent’s testimony: Kent is not a first-hand witness and much of his testimony is based off of second-hand knowledge. [Page 206-207] Kevin Bacon has fewer degrees … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 13, 2019

Welcome to a Friday the 13th LinkSwarm! Try to avoid hockey-mask-wearing serial killers today. Although I feel slightly dirty putting up a link to Vox, this piece on how Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend warps the politics of the state is … Continue reading →

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Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for August 26, 2019

Inslee and Moulton are Out, Sanders wants to bring U.S. Postal Service efficiency to powering your house and car, and there’s a rumor Grandma Death may arise from her crypt. It’s your Democratic Presidential clown car update! Polls Economist/YouGov (page … Continue reading →

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LA’s Homeless Crisis

Los Angeles is suffering from a huge homeless crisis: Everybody knows about the 36,000 homeless on the streets of LA, over 60,000 in the county, replete with human feces and syringes littering the sidewalks, along with rats, typhus and even … Continue reading →

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Gun News Roundup for January 15, 2019

Been a while since I did one of these, so let’s have at it: The Trump Administration’s bump-stock ban is a legal abomination: The new rule represents the most sweeping federal gun control effort since the so-called assault weapons ban, … Continue reading →

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Borepatch on the Failure of the War on Drugs

Borepatch and co-blogger ASM826 have been trading off talking about the massive pile of failure that is the War on Drugs. Start with Borepatch’s piece on the similarities between gun control and the war on drugs: Let me take a … Continue reading →

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Why No New Housing Gets Built in San Francisco

A property owner spent nearly 5 years and $1.4 million trying to convert his laundromat into new housing in San Francisco’s Mission district, only to find that city’s far left political establishment hates letting new housing be built. And they … Continue reading →

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Federal Judge Rules ObamaCare Unconstitutional

The budget busting, premium-hiking monster that is ObamaCare may finally be slain: A judge ruled Friday evening that Obamacare is unconstitutional, putting the future of the federal healthcare law in jeopardy. The decision, issued by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor … Continue reading →

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