Libertarian Links

Re: Citizens United: "It turns out that hedge fund operator Paul Singer, a prominent supporter of conservative causes, lent his checkbook and prestige to the gay marriage battle. He was joined by financiers Daniel Loeb and Cliff Asness. They underwrote a campaign that cost over $1 million to persuade four GOP state Senators to assure passage. A similar bill failed in 2009."

"Everything's a remix"

Anarchy helping Somalia?

For one study, researchers at the center followed 474 diet soda drinkers, 65 to 74 years of age, for almost 10 years. They found that diet soda drinkers’ waists grew 70 percent more than non-drinkers. Specifically, drinking two or more diet sodas a day busted belt sizes five times more than people who avoided the stuff entirely.

35-year-old 'temporary' tax expires.

1772: The Rights of the Colonists.

If ObamaCare is bending the health-care cost curve downward, I'm not seeing it. United Health Care just sent me a letter telling me it is seeking approval from the New York State Insurance department for a 21.9% increase in my 2012 health insurance premiums over 2011, which were already up 9% over 2010, the year that President Obama signed the ironically named "Affordable Care Act" into law.

Benefits of economic freedom.