The Unbroken Window

From the esteemed Mike Munger, you simply won’t believe it: The NC DOT did an engineering study of a local road widening project, and concluded that no new signals were required at two intersections. A citizen, David Cox, had the gall to disagree. He did some research, and put the research in the form of [...]

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Was that I thought he would curb the abuse of Executive Power that we saw under Lord W. But as the fiasco over Gitmo’s closings, his backroom appointments of Executive Office positions (see the selection of Ms. Warren), and now this, from the insightful Chris M.: “Assassin Nation” – Obama’s Right to Kill Americans: “How [...]

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Nevermind the spinelessness the Administration is showing in its policy of continuing the Bush torture shenanigans (so much for real change), now we see them playing this game: Article II, Section 2 also says “Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone,” but Congress [...]

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Perhaps the most underestimated force for “not good” are the local politicians and the unelected officials on various local committees. Just think of the power local zoning boards have over your life. In my neighborhood, I need to get the “permission” of a bunch of do-gooders if I am to put up a storage shed [...]

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This is truly incredible (I linked to it in an earlier post): The chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection. If a chip show a recyclable cart hasn’t been brought to the curb in weeks, a trash supervisor will sort through the trash for recyclables. [...]

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As if the guys in Albany were elected just to prove everything I say on this site correct: State tax officials, under orders from cash-strapped Albany to ramp up their audit and compliance efforts, have begun to enforce one of the more obscure distinctions within the state’s sales tax law. In New York, the sale [...]

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Well, we’re not allowed anymore. Another dispatch from the tyrannical state: Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act. The law, signed last week [...]

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Quote #1 “‘Our message to them is to work with this law, not against it; don’t try and take advantage of it or we will work with state authorities and gather the authority we have to stop rate gouging” Quote #2 “They are not going to stop us in the plan, which is to give [...]

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When du Pont developed cellophane (you know, plastic wrap) it was prosecuted by the Department of Justice under the terms of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Why? Because after spending millions of dollars in R&D to develop this new product, it was able to increase sales from $0 to $100 million per year over a 20 [...]

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The now signed into law ObamaCare bill gives the IRS an additional $10 billion of your money and the mandate to hire 16,000 more agents to enforce the new taxes and fees in the new law. Have a nice day.

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