Libertarian Think Tank

Great Reason.tv piece. It may very well be that it’s stupid for bacondogs to be illegal, but my beef is that Los Angeles City forces vendors to shell-out $26,000 for a hotdog cart if they want to sell the highly-demanded bacondogs. Question: if the cops patrol the streets enough to throw away vendors’ carts without due process, why can’t they just write tickets for violations?

A friend of mine, who is wedded to the idea that Democrats are the poor man’s champions, often asks me how limited government can ever help the poor. Elizabeth Palacios is my answer. Her bacondog sales earned her a car and house. The city has mandated that she purchase a hotdog cart 5 times as expensive as the one she has now. She spent 45 days in the cooler because she couldn’t. Keep seeling those dogs, sister.  

Miracle grow is suing a small organic fertilizer company called “Terracycle” because Terracycle’s packaging is just too similar to MiracleGrow’s and because Terracycle audaciously claims that their completely organic worm-composting system is healthier for crops than the chemical stuff.  

Limited Government advocate BJ Lawson won the Republican primary for Congress in North Carolina. The Youtubers had this to say:

I have to admit that I didn’t know who Bob Barr was until he introduced Ron Paul at CPAC:

I have become impressed with him. He worked for the CIA in the 70’s, so he had some fed cred before becomming a Republican Congressman from Georgia. He became a vocal critic of the Bush Administration while in office and while Democrats kept their Bush-hate underground. Now he is a prominent member of the ACLU, a good ‘ol fashioned conservative, and the Libertarian candidate for President. He has all the right things to say.

Timothy Garon, the Seattle musician who was refused a liver transplant by a University of Washington Medical Center comittee for using doctor-prescribed marijuana, has died.  

Here is a link to his music

And here is a more dignified picture than the Seattle Times afforded him:

Does anyone have a link to the organ-monopolist’s point of view?