PLF’s Timothy Sandefur on the Lars Larson Show Tuesday at 1:30
Author: Timothy Sandefur I’ll be a guest on the Lars Larson radio program tomorrow at 1:30pm, to discuss my book The Right to Earn A Living: Economic Freedom And The Law. Also, on Wednesday, I’ll be in Portland, Oregon, speaking to the Federalist Society at Lewis & Clark Law School (at noon) and the Executive … ...
Biodiversity: what's the big deal?
Author: Damien M. Schiff So asks James McWilliams in a recent oped in the New York Times' Freakonomics blog. McWilliams, a professor at Texas State University and a professed environmentalist, makes the point that, because we don't know what is the "baseline" for prehistoric numbers of species on Earth, we cannot say ...
Global warming and the flying squirrel
Author: Damien M. Schiff Last week, the LA Times Greenspace blog quoted me on the Center for Biological Diversity's petition to list the San Bernardino Mountains flying squirrel. The petition argues that the squirrel will lose habitat owing to global warming. The petition's theory is basically the same as th ...
Bed bugs and bureaucracy
Author: Brandon Middleton Jonathan Strong of the Daily Caller asks whether the Environmental Protection Agency is to blame for the resurgence of bed bugs: There were almost no bed bugs in the United States between World War II and the mid-1990s. Around when bed bugs started their resurgence, Congress passed a major pesticides law in … ...
"If a wolf threatened Bob Rowland's cows last month, he could reach for his rifle. Now he has to reach for a telephone."
Author: Brandon Middleton Rob Chaney of The Missoulian has a nice article on litigation concerning the gray wolf and grizzly bear and the litigation's practical implications. Related thoughts here. … ...
The meaning of 'diversity' at American universities
Author: Brandon Middleton I came across this apt description via Instapundit: Another professor’s unpublished letter (which I verified with him; I've verified the others also) to the college president said: “Anyone who has taught at a university during the past quarter-century and more knows that the slogan of ‘diversity’ ge ...
Environmentalists may miss shot to ban lead bullets
Author: Luke A. Wake Yesterday Damien Schiff reported that EPA was considering banning lead bullets. It now appears that EPA has determined that it lacks jurisdiction to make such a promulgation. … ...
Obama's administration is opposing common law global warming suits?
Author: Luke A. Wake It is surprising to see that the Obama Administration has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the petitioners in AEP v. Connecticut. They are asking the Supreme Court to reverse the Second Circuit decision permitting Connecticut and number of other plaintiffs to sue energy companies for their emission … ...
Is there such a thing as “smart regulation”?
Author: Timothy Sandefur My friend Ed Brayton, blogging at Dispatches from The Culture Wars, argues that when talking about government regulation of the economy, “The issue should not be one of regulation vs no regulation, it should be one of smart regulation. Regulations well designed to achieve the goal of protecting consumers…without ...
Taking economic liberty seriously
Author: Timothy Sandefur Reason magazine has posted a very kind review of my book, The Right to Earn A Living. … ...