The Harm in Hate-Speech Laws - David Gordon - Mises Daily

The Harm in Hate-Speech Laws - David Gordon - Mises Daily: "you do not own your reputation, since this consists of the ideas other people have of you, and you cannot own other people's thoughts."

Trim Nuclear Fat from the Pentagon Budget | Benjamin H. Friedman and Christopher Preble | Cato Institute: Commentary

Trim Nuclear Fat from the Pentagon Budget | Benjamin H. Friedman and Christopher Preble | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Even by the most merciless arithmetic, this triple threat is unnecessary. Congress should take the advice of experts like former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James Cartwright and decommission either the bomber or ICBM leg while cutting the forces in the remaining two legs, leaving a deployed warhead total under 500."

"Monumental leaps in our ability to precisely aim conventional and nuclear weapons have greatly reduced the number and size of the weapons we need to threaten enemies. And the U.S. military's vast advantage over all rivals makes it even less plausible that we will ever be desperate enough to resort to a nuclear strike."

"The peace among rich states increasingly seems to depend on factors beyond mutual terror. Only poor, threatened states now develop nuclear weapons for security."

D.C. Wants a Bite at the Apple | David Boaz | Cato Institute: Commentary

D.C. Wants a Bite at the Apple | David Boaz | Cato Institute: Commentary: "For more than a decade, Microsoft went about its business, developing software, selling it to customers and — legally — making money.

Washington politicians and journalists sneered at the company’s naiveté. A congressional aide said, “They don’t want to play the D.C. game, that’s clear, and they’ve gotten away with it so far. The problem is, in the long run they won’t be able to.”

A major antitrust case and a few other inquiries later, Microsoft got the message. They now play the game."

With Alaska's Pebble Partnership, The EPA Waves the Precaution Flag | Patrick J. Michaels | Cato Institute: Commentary

With Alaska's Pebble Partnership, The EPA Waves the Precaution Flag | Patrick J. Michaels | Cato Institute: Commentary: " The Assessment is designed to be used for regulation based upon the “precautionary principle”. This darling of the global left states that “if something has the potential to cause harm, it shouldn’t be done”. The UN’s a big fan and reports are that they have been sniffing around parts of Bristol Bay looking for a way to get in on the Pebble issue. In fact, its Framework Convention on Climate Change—the scaffold upon which the failed Kyoto Protocol on global warming was erected-is based on the precautionary principle, noting that a lack “full scientific certainty” should not provide grounds to preclude regulation."

How could they travel there to do research when the travel causes harm? What doesn't have "the potential to cause harm"?

"Under the precautionary principle, there is simply no way that antibiotics would ever have been marketed, had scientists had known of the potential for bacteria to mutate into resistant strains. There would be no airplanes or cars (they can and will crash, you know). Even today, New Jersey and Oregon won’t let you pump gas because your car could explode (and the price of gas must therefore go up)."

"Wouldn’t it be a shame if the cost of slamming Pebble shut was to price hybrids even more out of the market?"