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• Doing Business in America

  We all know that regulatory uncertainty is a conservative myth, right? The very idea that the tens of thousands of pages of federal regulations are inhibiting American business is just laughable, no?

  Well, someone forgot to tell the Economist:

  America is meant to be the home of laissez-faire. Unlike Europeans, whose lives have long been circumscribed by meddling governments and diktats from Brussels, Americans are supposed to be free to choose, for better or for

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• A Surplus of Law

  I finally, somewhat belatedly, read Harvey Silverglate’s Three Felonies a Day. The book is a bit different from the title. It doesn’t actually argue that Americans commit three felonies a day. But it does argue that vague laws, ambitious prosecutors, regulatory complexity and the abandonment of mens rea — the principle that criminal charges should be brought only for intentional violations of the law — have created an environment in which massive swathes of … Read more

• Obama Admin comedy gold..

  That comes from Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack when he equates food stamps with a stimulus:

  Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It’s the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy

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• Obama Punts On Oil

  When I gassed up today, the price was $4 per gallon. We’re reaching price levels that, when the evil Bush was in office, were proof of some Cheney-led conspiracy.

  It’s quite obvious what’s going on. The recessions is easing, which is driving up energy use. There is instability in the Middle East — well, there’s always instability in the MIddle East, but it’s been unstable even by their standards. You can read Ron Bailey here… Read more

• Obama The … Moderate?

  Ezra Klein had an article this weekend arguing that Barack Obama is a … moderate Republican. Let’s peel this back a bit.

  Perhaps this is just the logical endpoint of two years spent arguing over what Barack Obama is — or isn’t. Muslim. Socialist. Marxist. Anti-colonialist. Racial healer. We’ve obsessed over every answer except the right one: President Obama, if you look closely at his positions, is a moderate Republican of the early 1990s. And

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