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BREAKING! If we want state parks, we have to fund them!

It took months of study and some false starts, but the state group looking into the gradual collapse of the state park system has had a Eureka! moment. It's a revolutionary free market idea. Robert Heinlein is saying "TANSTAAFL, dammit!" (You can ...

From ELWOOD, Blue Hampshire,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Judd Gregg,  John Stark,  Louvre

Olivia Wilde shows new side in indie movie 'The Fix'

Olivia Wilde at the premiere of 'Fix' at Tribeca Cinemas in New York on Nov. 14, 2009. She costars in the movie with her husband, who also directed and wrote the film. The star of "Fix" may be the first sex symbol to moonlight as a pet manager. ...

From MARK ELWOOD, New York Daily News,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Olivia Wilde,  Tao Ruspoli,  Barack Obama

The Perfect Lawyer — Herbert J. “Jack” Miller, 1924–2009

Herbert J. “Jack” Miller, the founder of my old firm (the much mourned Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin) died Saturday. He was 85. Jack had a career full of highlights any one of which would have been the capstone to a successful lawyer’s career: service ...

From JOHN ELWOOD, The Volokh Conspiracy,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Richard Nixon,  Michael Deaver,  U.S. Department of Justice

CVSG in Staub v. Proctor Hospital

The Court didn’t grant cert in any cases today. It did, however, call for the views of the Solicitor General in Staub v. Proctor Hospital, 09–400, a case presenting the question of the proper standard to employ in determining whether an employer can be ...

From JOHN ELWOOD, The Volokh Conspiracy,  9 Nov 2009

Second OT2009 Opinion–PC in Capital Case

No Supreme Court opinions in argued cases yet, but we got a second per curiam in a non-argued case. The Court summarily reversed the Sixth Circuit (Merritt, Martin, Moore) in the case of David Bobby (I guess that’s Ricky’s brother), Warden v. Robert J. ...

From JOHN ELWOOD, The Volokh Conspiracy,  9 Nov 2009

A Free Market Approach to Swine Flu Vaccine

The market opportunity for vaccine sellers is  about 18 months long, based on similar outbreaks. It takes six months to grow sufficient quantities of the vaccine. If you are a Dynamic Young Entrepreneur in early 2009 and you go looking for venture ...

From ELWOOD, Blue Hampshire,  3 Nov 2009

A Halloween Visitor: The Zombie Public Option

We thought it was dead a few weeks ago. Then the credulous cheered when it started moving again. This Halloween night the dull thud of its awkward shuffle toward us cannot be ignored. The public option IS dead.  Its lifeless animation would make us ...

From ELWOOD, Blue Hampshire,  31 Oct 2009

What Does New Hampshire's Tax Structure Do?

Sorry - I don't have an answer for you. Lots of opinions, but you are maybe looking for actual data, with some well-grounded analysis occasionally included. This is great stuff. Loads of charts, links, historical trends, comparisons to other states and ...

From ELWOOD, Blue Hampshire,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ways and Means Committee,  Gary Hirshberg

"a talk with my young children about

why someone is pretending to shoot their mother." And it wasn't some tiny sect of Klanners or survivalists - let me apologize to those groups right here. It was instead the Republican Party of Florida that held the event. But hey, we're in bucolic New ...

From ELWOOD, Blue Hampshire,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Kelly Ayotte

9 Comments: Opting Out

I'm starting to like this "let the states opt out" concept. I admit I had my doubts. It seems odd for Congress to say that a program doesn't add any costs to the states, and yet provide an escape clause to let a state not participate. Not an individual, ...

From ELWOOD, Blue Hampshire,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NPR

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