How Leviathan Works: FDA to Regulate Medical Apps

by Bob Adelmann | 2:50 pm, February 13, 2012

The underlying argument for government regulation is that regulation to protect consumer safety can’t be done in the private sector. After all, left by itself, free enterprise will “run wild.” Little if anything is ever heard about how the free market can provide its own regulation to protect consumer safety through private institutions like Underwriters Laboratory.

Regulatory Agencies Continue to Slow the Economy

by Bob Adelmann | 11:39 am, February 9, 2012

It is any wonder that the economy cannot recover? Each regulation is like a 10-pound weight in the saddle bags of a race horse. Not only will they slow the horse down, in sufficient number they will kill the horse.

Friday’s Unemployment Numbers: Correcting the Corrections

by Bob Adelmann | 8:11 pm, February 6, 2012

It’s awfully easy to accuse the BLS of fudging the numbers for political purposes, especially since an improving economy is likely to improve Obama’s chances for a second term. But honesty requires that we look more closely at those numbers.

Drones: Newest Tool of the Surveillance State

by Bob Adelmann | 12:18 pm, January 31, 2012

Rather than think about how scary this scenario is, I prefer to think about how to stop it. These incursions into our freedoms require money which requires congressional approval. If we stop the funding, we stop the incursions. It’s that simple.

Constitutional Authority House Rule XII Largely Ignored

by Bob Adelmann | 6:02 am, January 20, 2012

Perhaps I’m getting cynical in my old age but this was worthless from the start. How ridiculous even to think that limits would be honored when they are written by the very people who intended to ignore them.

SOPA, PIPA Blackouts Are Working!

by Bob Adelmann | 5:11 am, January 19, 2012

Read carefully about Marco Rubio’s reversal when he realized that he might just wind up being a one-term Senator over this issue. The internet does work.

One Lonely State Representative Opposes Indefinite Detention

by Bob Adelmann | 5:52 am, January 17, 2012

Where is the outrage? Where is the anger? Where is the complaining? Is there just ONE politician with backbone stiff enough to say NO?

Ron Paul Primary Results: the Rest of the Story

by Bob Adelmann | 3:54 pm, January 13, 2012

Since Ron Paul isn’t especially charismatic, what is the basis for his attraction among young people? It has to be his message: the message of freedom.

Family Research Council: Individual Mandate Unconstitutional, Thus Whole Law

by Bob Adelmann | 11:54 am, January 12, 2012

The entire Obamacare law rises or falls on this point: if the mandate is unconstitutional, so is the law. Wouldn’t that be sweet? Color me anxious.

Ethanol Subsidies Disappear, Mandates Remain

by Bob Adelmann | 5:03 am, January 9, 2012

What makes this story so interesting, I think, is the fact that the editorial board of the Washington Post now, all of a sudden, thinks that the ending of ethanol subsidies is a good thing.

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