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Energy Drinks, Regulation, and Equality
Monster Energy is getting out of the dietary supplement business. But its customers shouldn’t panic: It’s going into the beverage business—with the same products.
Vanquishing Earth Hour Darkness
What a sorry spectacle! People in the world’s most developed countries turn off their brains and thus are guilt-tripped by environmentalists into turning off their lights for Earth Hour on Saturday. They visit upon themselves the curse of darkness that the poor in less developed countries pray will be lifted with an abundant supply of inexpensive electricity.
Ethanol Cronies Seek Antitrust Help Against Gasoline Company
Scott Zaremba has been trying to use gasoline as one ingredient in an ethanol product that competes with gasoline. Ethanol lobbyists say his gasoline supplier isn’t cooperating—and they’re invoking antitrust law to try to force Phillips 66 to help Zaremba reduce demand for the kind of product it makes.
Francis I: Pope of the Poor
Francis I, the newly installed Pope, has called on Catholics to protect all humanity, “especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important, those whom Matthew lists in the final judgment on love: the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick and those in prison.”
Cronyists Fight to Defend Cosmetology Licensing
Do you want the freedom to practice your profession without permission? Some cosmetologists in Indiana and Missouri don’t—and they’re fighting to avoid that dreadful fate of freedom.
Equal Injustice 50 Years After Gideon
Today is the 50th anniversary of the historic Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, which established that the government, if it wishes to press serious criminal charges against an individual who cannot afford legal representation, must provide an attorney for him.
Drink to Democracy, and Make It a Large
The New York City Board of Health's ban on large sodas, which was to take effect tomorrow, has been struck down by a state judge. Mayor Michael R.
