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Relevance: 27% Posted on: November 19, 2009
Don’t get sick in Union, Missouri. Not if you need Sudafed in a hurry. Union is the second city in the nation to require a prescription for sales of medicine containing pseudoephedrine. This is an active ingredient in Sudafed, a drug that good-hearted and responsible people might take to relieve…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: February 25, 2008
Is it possible to discuss the resignation of a dictator, like Fidel Castro, and not mention that he was, indeed, a dictator? Apparently . . . as Tom Palmer of the Cato Institute noted on February 19, the day of the announcement. The newspaper stories that I read were carefully…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: March 4, 2020
Lord Acton’s Law of Power states the chief problem of government: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It has broad application. Take traffic lights. They are there to prevent accidents and make navigating roads a better experience for all. The basic idea is to establish and enforce…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: March 9, 2010
Picnicking on railroad tracks? Not dangerous. Most of the time the tracks are free. Take out the picnic basket and pass the chips. Glug down a few drinks. The tracks are safe when there’s no train. After the train? Well, you’re dead. Not dangerous then, either. Only in the moments…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: April 25, 2008
Expensive coffee is my besetting sin. But the hugely successful Starbucks — which I’ve defended before — recently did something so oddly irksome that maybe I’ll get a handle on my occasional vice. Starbucks offers a debit-card-like “customer card†that allows you to pay for your purchases in advance. Or…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: September 26, 2016
On September 26, 1786, protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts, beginning a military standoff and ushering in Shays’ Rebellion. This anti-tax revolt spurred a dramatic reaction on the part of the day’s politicians, including their attempts to reform the Articles of Confederation and to figure out better ways…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: September 26, 2017
On September 26, 1786, protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts, beginning a military standoff and ushering in Shays’ Rebellion. This anti-tax revolt spurred a dramatic reaction on the part of the day’s politicians, including their attempts to reform the Articles of Confederation and to figure out better ways…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: September 12, 2019
“Do you really want me to rule the country?” Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch pointedly asked CNN’s Ariane de Vogue. “It is not a judge’s job to do whatever he or she thinks is good,” Gorsuch added, in response to her concern that judicial activism might sometimes be “needed.” “We…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: December 17, 2023
There is what I call the American idea. I so name it, because it seems to me to lie at the basis of all our truly original, distinctive, and American institutions. It is itself a complex idea, composed of three subordinate and more simple ideas, namely: The idea that all…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: September 24, 2020
On September 24, 1789, the United States Congress passed the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and ordered the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States. On the same day that President George Washington signed the bill into…