Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Financial Accounting Standards Board Delivers Gift To Tort Bar New accounting rules would give lawyers a lawsuit roadmap, say observers... |
| Six Myths About Campaign Money When the Supreme Court decided in January to toss out the decades-old ban on direct corporate and union campaign spending, U.S. politics changed overnight, say observers... |
| Licensing Restrictions Shut Down Little Girl's Lemonade Stand If the government is willing to shut down a little girl's lemonade stand, how far are they willing to go to infringe on our economic liberties?... |
| Do Drug Courts Work? Given the success of drug courts, and the projected savings if more programs were implemented, the United States should use drug courts to save taxpayers' money and effectively treat criminals with drug problems, says Jessica Huseman, an intern with the NCPA... |
| A MORATORIUM WE NEED Regulation now costs the U.S. economy over $1 trillion a year, says Iain Murray, vice president for strategy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute... |
| PLUGGING THE LEAKS President Obama hates leaks, and thanks to a tenacious prosecutor, the Justice Department is on its way to setting a record for leak prosecutions, says journalist Shane Harris... |
| THE WAR NEXT DOOR Why has the Mexican drug violence not spread across the border to El Paso?... |
| THE GREAT FIREWALL OF AUSTRALIA: THE POLITICAL CONCERNS Mandatory Internet filtering has economic and political risks, says Chris Williams-Wynn, a recent honors graduate of the University of Melbourne... |
| A HIDDEN WORLD, GROWING BEYOND CONTROL Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States... |
| THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE -- II The new financial reform bill will be 30 times more complicated than Sarbanes-Oxley, Tom Quaadman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce... |
