Oodles of links for your lunchtime edification:
Erroll Tyler: Fighting for the right to ply his trade freely in the face of Boston’s transportation cartel (see video below). IJ also has a great new case opposing the surveillance state. [Institute for Justice]
Erroll Tyler and IJ challenge Boston:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjua1FES8PE&e
Is Pat Buchanan close to advocating an end to hostilities in the War on Drugs? It sure seems that way. [The Agitator]
Stephen Gordon wonders why it took the election of a Democrat for Republicans to rediscover the value of individual liberty and small government. [The Liberty Papers]
Bill Easterly gives Peter Singer’s new book, The Life You Can Save (available here), which treats failing to to donate to charity as morally equivalent to allowing children to die, a thorough drubbing in a recent column. There is, of course, nothing wrong with donating to charity, but international charity has as much trouble withstanding a public choice analysis as politicians do. [Aid Watch]
Russell Roberts says “Let them fail.” (referring to the ailing firms the feds are currently propping up.) [Cafe Hayek]
Jacob laments the Ethiopian government’s new policy of treating coffee as a homogeneous good. [Crispy on the Outside]
James Waterton is hopeful that the economic crisis will increase liberty as states fail and asks: Do you agree? [Samizdata]
In a continuing series, Alex Tabarrok notes that safes appear to be a counter-cyclical asset. [Marginal Revolution]
Hayek’s got inflation by the balls–literally. [Taking Hayek Seriously]
Technology Policy Weekly 43: Public Access to Court Records [Technology Liberation Front]
Amazon criticized for caving to the Author’s Guild on Kindle’s text-to-speech function. No doubt some at the AG wouldn’t see anything wrong with copyright-based SWAT mission creep. [Think Free]
Alina notes the problem(s) with democracy. [Adventures in Home-Making]
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