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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Loyalty to Government Is Overrated
Loyalty to government is overrated. The point is that if you over-prioritize loyalty, other essential goods get de-prioritized. And those other goods are far more important to sound public decision-making. We have to recognize that loyalty will inevitably come into conflict with other principles — truth, justice, and morality.
8 Big-Government Policies That Hurt the Poor
Cronyism is bad for innovators and consumers, but it’s worse for the poor.
1. Renewable Fuel Standard
2. Federal Sugar Program
3. Catfish Inspection Program
4. The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (the Jones Act)
5. Occupational Licensure
6. Economic Development Takings
7. Home-Sharing Regulations
8. Ride-Sharing Regulations
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
A Brief History of Occupational Licensing
The arc of history has tended toward the licensing of an ever-larger number of professions. Today, a number of them—such as barbers, bartenders, and florists—are subject to licensing requirements even though the regulated activities do not bear even a remote relation to protection of the life, health, and safety of community members. Licensing individuals before allowing them to claim that they are “able to heal, cure or relieve those suffering from any injury, deformity or disease” makes sense, but today’s licensing regimes prohibit individuals, sometimes on pain of criminal liability, from engaging in conduct that poses no risk of harm to any person or to the community. Such a regime causes injury rather than protecting against it.
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A Brief History of Occupational Licensing
The arc of history has tended toward the licensing of an ever-larger number of professions. Today, a number of them—such as barbers, bartenders, and florists—are subject to licensing requirements even though the regulated activities do not bear even a remote relation to protection of the life, health, and safety of community members. Licensing individuals before allowing them to claim that they are “able to heal, cure or relieve those suffering from any injury, deformity or disease” makes sense, but today’s licensing regimes prohibit individuals, sometimes on pain of criminal liability, from engaging in conduct that poses no risk of harm to any person or to the community. Such a regime causes injury rather than protecting against it.
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from Miami Herald
Why is arguing with Trumpkin followers like pouring water on concrete? Nothing seems to mean anything anymore. The idea of principled debate got run over by the Trump Train.
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from Military Times
and Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, and Navy Times
Almost 85 years after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy, retired Lt. Gen. William Ely returned to West Point Tuesday as the academy’s oldest living grad and took part in the school's alumni review.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
The warning from 2015 and 2016: what matters in the flurry of the campaign may not matter at all the morning after polling. Broadcasters should be mindful of their responsibility to give the electorate a chance to hear the views of the parties straight.
Around the world, support for genuinely revolutionary ideas is strong, but in the UK at least, there's less enthusiasm for the people promising them.
from PBS (& affiliates)
Huge Landslide in Big Sur Poses New Challenge for Reopening Highway 1
KQED -- A Big Sur mountainside that had been on the move for most of the winter gave way over the weekend in a landslide that locals say is the biggest along the scenic stretch of coast in decades. The slide occurred at Mud Creek, just south of the community of Gorda and 25 miles up Highway 1 from San Simeon. The episode is the latest in a series of highway-closing slope collapses triggered by the extraordinarily wet winter along the coast.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from uCatholic
What Is The Pope’s Actual Title? (Hint: It’s Not Pope)
Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, Servant of the servants of God.
What Is The Pope’s Actual Title? (Hint: It’s Not Pope)
Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, Servant of the servants of God.
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