In an alleged attempt to stop sports memorabilia fraud, onerous paperwork and privacy-violating requirements now attached to any autographed item sold for over $5.
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City officials want specially-trained police to go door-to-door making sure no one is illegally granting permission for strangers to sleep in their homes.
Q&A with the great libertarian law professor on cigarettes, global warming, foreign policy, and much, much more.
Innovation is an opportunity for some to expand government power.
You can do whatever you want on your own property, as long as the government approves.
The United States ranks 16th in the world on economic freedom index
"Our goal is to make sure this is available," a spokesman says.
Two city aldermen say it's about protecting pedestrians, but it's really about protecting taxi companies.
If you think the FDA and food inspectors rather than vendors' desire not to kill their customers is what keeps you safe, you're an idiot.
What is not permitted is prohibited
The agency says the psychoactive leaf must be banned because it has never been approved.
As far as the DEA is concerned, the leaf has no legitimate uses.
New York court rules aren't independent contractors, despite facts that could also point to "contrary result."
We'll have to keep dreaming about the day the Tacocopter will forever change the way humans fulfill their cravings for Mexican food.
Distributors banded together in 2013 to pass a law that violates the state constitution.
While regulations hold companies back in the United States, other countries are serving as laboratories for drone innovation and research.
Says Chevron deference equals "the abdication of the judicial duty."
The taxman plays art critic
With NIDA as the only legal source of cannabis for research, meeting FDA requirements was impossible.
A logic-defying law lets the DEA keep cannabis in a more restrictive category than morphine, cocaine, PCP, and methamphetamine.
Politicians adopt a policy that does the opposite of what they supposedly intended to do.
The U.S. renewable fuels standard backfires
Manufacturers will have to guess which circumstances those are, because the FDA won't say.
The Controlled Substances Act established arbitrary rules that make it impossible to properly categorize many drugs.
You have a permit for that pub crawl, drunk Santa?
Bill by Sens. Feinstein, Collins would give FDA more authority over cosmetics than it has over food.
"We'll look back on the factory-farm era with the same kind of ethical revulsion that we look back on slavery."
His legacy will include hundreds of new federal regulations.
New Hampshire, Alaska, and Oklahoma are tops, but can you guess the three worst states?
Progressives and the failure of massive government spending to boost jobs and economic growth
The new rules will discourage smokers from switching to vaping, a much less dangerous alternative.
Massive fines over a very common home-based business.
Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute & Center for the Advancement of Capitalism wants business owners to champion free markets better.
New rules will dramatically reduce competition, variety, and innovation, retarding the replacement of smoking with a much safer alternative.
Years ago, Anaheim gained notice for its freedom-friendly way of governing. Now, the city is pursuing the command, control and subsidize approach seen elsewhere
New regs took affect on Monday and could be too costly for small companies to compete with Big Tobacco.
Registry of federal regulations surpasses 50,000 pages, on pace to break annual record.
Sixteen states require hair braiders to get cosmetology licenses, which cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and require at least 1,000 hours of training.
Unnecessary state regulations add costly burdens with no real safety benefits.
Is more oversight truly needed, or just more risk awareness?
Too many rules are putting a major drag on economic growth.
When a 2-year-old eats a pot cookie, it seems safe to assume an adult screwed up.
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