...from overgrown grass. Code enforcement officers, or “grass cops,” roam Maryland neighbourhoods to check on residents who are not in compliance with rules about overgrown lawns. The AP article states that letting grass grow more than a foot high is illegal. 8 inches is the limit in Baltimore City. But, don’t fret, if you forget to cut your
One of of the most underreported repercussions of the ill-advised SarbOx legislation is the flight of publicly traded foreign companies as they de-list from the Security and Exchange Commission in order to avoid burdensome compliance. The increasing costs of capital drive IPO’s and the ensuing trading activity to other more competitive markets
James Buchan’s new book provides further evidence to support Murray Rothbard’s thesis that Adam Smith was a somewhat brilliant man without direction and significant insight. And yet, Smith’s views were embraced by many, including both Margaret Thatcher and Karl Marx. He was the supposed “champion of laissez-faire” economics without ever using the
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Renowned Russian art director and web designer Artemy Lebedev (of Optimus Keyboard fame) recently took a trip to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and came back with a surplus of surprising photos . Many of them forbidden by authorities (don’t miss page 2 ). It is a photo journal full of evidence of the depravity of communism,
Should you be able to wear orange lederhosen at a World Cup match? Or be forced to enjoy the event in your undergarments? Or specifically, should you be able to wear orange “leeuwenhose” with a Bavaria logo, Holland’s second biggest brewery, even though they are not an official World Cup sponsor? Does not being a sponsor of the event enable Fifa
Tales From The Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW? is a project of Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. It is a look at the battlefield that is intellectual property law told through the eyes of a documentary filmmaker. The comic is quite insightful and does point out the insanity and ridiculousness that make up today’s copyright
Paul Petrino was recently acquitted of income-tax evasion charges after he filed returns for 36 clients claiming that salaries cannot be legally taxed. According to Newsday, his defense was “based on arguments from the tax-protester movement, which questions the validity of the federal income tax laws.” Petrino told his clients that wages and
The jock tax : one of the most odious taxes to come down the pike in a long time. The tax that has been dubbed “Michael Jordan’s Revenge” as it was created after the Chicago Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1991 National Basketball Association championship. It was first instituted by the state of California in order to tax the income of
Were the barbarians more beneficent than the Romans? A couple of Englishmen are trying to convince you that this is so. They state that the only uniquely Roman feature of the Empire was its professional army (hardly an advance). “...The fact that we still think of the Celts, the Huns, the Vandals, the Goths and so on as “barbarians” means that we
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