So the regulations have begun. Two towns, so far, have passed laws banning the use of cellular phones while driving. In Illinois, the giant cellular telephone provider Verizon said it would lobby for a state law prohibiting anything but "hands-free" cellular phone use by drivers.
A plan to increase government control over who can practice medicine and how.
It's not all it's cracked up to be. Freedom is the only way out of the current mess, says Andei Kreptul.
State governments have succumbed to anti-tobacco groups and infringed upon the right of private establishments to determine for themselves their smoking policy.
This speech was delivered before the annual convention of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, St. Louis, Missouri, October 26, 2000.
How to counter the attack on junk food? Not through tortured reasoning but with a forthright defense of consumer freedom.
Americans are concerned about the rising cost of pharmaceutical drugs. This has drawn the attention of writers, politicians, and others who have attempted to deal with the issue in typical fashion by advocating the use of government force to implement their plan.
A famed physicist warns of a market-driven genetic caste system. But the real danger is putting the government in charge of any technology.
The New England Journal of Medicine has it backwards: it's public, not private, money that skews research agendas.
People's complaints about the rising price of drugs are both mistaken (no, more government controls won't help) and justified (patents do indeed restrict competition)
