- Say hello to the newly instated Senator Stuart Smalley.
- FDA panel recommends a ban on seven prescription painkillers, including Percocet and Vicodin.
- Surprise! Just-passed House energy bill larded with corporate welfare and pork projects.
- Census data show that cities are making a comeback, at the expense of suburbs.
- States hit hardest by the recession seeing a smaller proportional share of stimulus spending.
- WalMart supports an employer health care mandate. Weirdly, this will likely win the company praise from its traditional critics. In truth, this really is an effort to impose expensive, government-enforced burdens on the company’s mom-and-pop competitors. Yet another example of how behemoth companies tend to welcome federal regulation, not shun it. More regs make it more difficult for upstarts to compete.
- Stock up on Nyquil and Allerest now. The feds may ban them. Ridiculous. When you consider how many people benefit from the acetaminophen’s pain relief properties, 458 deaths per year sounds almost like a rounding error. (MORE: They want to ban Percocet and Vicodin, too.)
- Publishers Weekly interviews comic artist Peter Bagge, whose new book is a collection of the editorial comics he has written for Reason over the years.
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