ATF and The Last Frontier

From Anthony Martin at Examiner.com: A report issued on Tuesday by Ammoland Shooting Sports News indicates that the ATF–the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives–is engaged in new illegal activity, this time in the state of Alaska. According to gun store owners in Anchorage, ATF agents are requiring that they submit what is called [...]

EPA and Obama’s Energy Policy

HotAir has this piece today, on how the EPA is targeting coal plants with regulations to destroy them: If you thought gas prices will never stop rising, just wait until you see what happens to electricity after the Barack Obama’s EPA gets its way.  The agency will deliver on Obama’s election promise to bankrupt any [...]

Free To Choose Part 7: Who Protects The Consumer?

Milton Friedman on economics, the free market, consumer choice, and safety. The picture of the staggering amount of regulations cranked out by the federal government as of the 1970s is amazing.  Considering that they haven’t slowed down, it’s almost painful to imagine the number of laws you’re breaking right now due to regulations as interpretations [...]

Three Cheers for the Chevy Volt -

- should be Ann Coulter’s new mantra if she’s defending absurd expansions of the commerce clause. Via the Washington Examiner: Coming soon: Individual mandate to buy Chevy Volts They’re joking with that headline… kinda sorta. The CAFE rule is the fleet-wide average fuel economy rating manufacturers are required by Washington to achieve. The new rule [...]

Three Cheers for Romneycare -

- MY SHINY METAL ASS! Ann Coulter proves she’s trying to be as good at bending ideas as Bender is with when she came up with this bizarre convoluted column that seems out of place with almost all of the rest of her work: The only reason the “individual mandate” has become a malediction is [...]

Today’s Nonsense Regulation: Biofuel Mandates

HT to Jawa Report. Via NYT: WASHINGTON — When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law. But there was none to [...]

Spriket Explaining SOPA and PIPA

Via the Jawa Report:

WTF is SOPA? – The US FedGov Regulating the Internet to Death

A Brit tech writer gives a brief overview of how SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” can cause massive harm to the internet, new media, and tech sectors – not just those businesses and commerce and social sites in existence, but also the future development thereof:

Gunwalker Update: Gun Control Celebration at ATF

Over at CleanUpATF.org, I stumbled on this post – Understanding the political agenda of “Fast and Furious”: btjohnson – On December 17th 2010, 2 days after Brian Terry was murdered, the ATF posted for comment a new regulation proposing the reporting of multiple rifle sales with detachable magazines in States bordering Mexico. The regulation was [...]

Regulations on Bigfoot

From FOX News: Taking Liberties: Bigfoot Spotted, Needs Permit By Douglas Kennedy Published November 23, 2011 The video shows a large animal-like figure walking upright on a ridge on the top of Mount Monadnock, one of New Hampshire’s most popular hiking attractions. A group of tourists nearby are then interviewed. “What is it that you [...]