What does it take to get a small-business owner arrested? Not much, sometimes. Take Kentucky pawn shop owner Randy Hale. A man came into his store and claimed a tiller Hale was trying to sell was in fact his; when Hale wouldn't give it to him, but offered to sell it to him, he called the authorities. What happened next, according to police spokesman Shane Jacobs:
Ronnie Gilley built a business in Alabama, and then- Gov. Bob Riley wanted to shut it down . Now Gilley's bound for prison -- for defending himself improperly.
July 12, 2012 -- In the middle of the last decade, two business professors and a handful of Wall Street Journal reporters called attention to widespread backdating of employee stock options, launching a rich-hunt that cost numerous executives their jobs and five of them, at least for some time, their freedom.Now, The Atlas Society’s Business Rights Center has published a book by Roger Donway on one of those five cases—and on the victim at its center.
Travis Kalanick's Uber helps city dwellers get rides on demand in luxury cars, and he wants to launch a cheaper service, one closer in price to taxis. But Washington, D.C., Councilmember Mary Cheh proposed a law that would have imposed a price floor on such services -- and effectively prohibited the new service.
I'd like to take a moment to applaud the Pacific Legal Foundation and the legislature and governor of Missouri for putting an end to that state's certificate of necessity law for moving companies. The law gave established moving companies "the privilege of basically vetoing" a newcomer's application for a license, PLF says.
As the SEC produces yet more regulations, the New York Times gives us a striking quote: One man’s loophole is another man’s livelihood. The speaker is Bart Chilton, a Democrat on the SEC who advocates regulation and opposed this regulation for having, in a Times blogger's words, "loopholes wide enough for Wall Street to exploit."
How many people got HIV because the FDA didn't even want to consider approving a home test for the deadly virus? That's the question Roger Parloff over at Fortune raises now that the FDA has approved one:
The Atlas Society's director of advocacy, conducted a video interview with Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on his thought's on Ayn Rand's Atlas....
Here comes the government, like some red-white-and-blue monster, crushing people’s livelihoods and aspirations almost without noticing: a typical political horror story. That’s what the Las Vegas Review-Journal article about the amendment to the transportation bill that snuffed out the industry of selling people tobacco and paper, then letting them use roll-your-own-cigarette machines, sounds like at first. But if you notice three facts mentioned in the article, you might second-guess that judgment.
Over last week's holiday, New York businesses continued to advocate your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of a very large Coke . It's good to see them fighting back, but a spokesman for Mayor Michael R.
Our Atlas Summit was held Jun 28-July 1 in Washington, D.C., with an enthusiastic crowd--including a fair number of students--in attendance. If you missed the Summit, don't fret. We'll be publishing video of each presentation. Just sign up for our email updates (at left) to stay informed of releases.
A businessman was accused of "structuring" cash deposits of his income from farmers market sales, and now the federal prosecutor who took his money is accused of retaliating against the businessman for protesting to the press: In an e-mail to [Baltimore City Paper], Watt [the businessman's lawyer] paraphrases what he recalls [prosecutor] Cassella saying: “Well, Dave, now I have a problem. Your client spoke to the press and now I have to file charges. Otherwise it will appear that I was influenced by your client speaking to the press. Also, I don’t want the next person who I file against to think that he/she can gain leverage by talking to the press.”
It's "hard to find another social group persecuted on such a large scale" as businessmen, says Boris Titov. Ayn Rand, of course, called big-business men "America's Persecuted Minority," but as bad as things were for American businessmen in her time, and as much worse as they are today, Titov is ombudsman for business rights in a country where things are even worse: Over the past decade, he tells the BBC, "Russia has imprisoned nearly three million entrepreneurs, many unjustly."
Americans are again celebrating Independence Day in traditional fashion, enjoying themselves with family and friends, picnics and fireworks.
Remember the Abacus case against Goldman Sachs that the BRC's Roger Donway said involved a "moral counter-revolution" ? Well, Goldman is still facing litigation over that deal: a judge recently refused to dismiss a lawsuit by people who'd bought Goldman stock .
If the notion of forcing Netflix to tailor movies for the deaf and blind or making banks replace their ATMs with audio-equipped versions ...
A deaf person and two deaf-advocacy organizations are suing Netflix for making movies available for instant online viewing without providing
June 15, 2012 - This is my second Father’s Day as the daddy of Sophia and Allegra, my 17-month-old fraternal twin girls. I never thought I’d meet the right woman but—wow!—I did and thus, well into my fifth decade, we decided to become parents. The day the girls were born was the most wonderful and memorable of my life.Evolution programmed us with a sex drive that keeps the species going. But contraception now makes parenthood a choice. Evolution also has programmed int
Among the challenges businesses face as a result of President Obama's health-insurance reform law is uncertainty . But even if the Supreme Court puts an end to that law, the Wall Street Journal notes, it won't put an end to the regime uncertainty surrounding health reform .
What does it take to get a small-business owner arrested? Not much, sometimes. Take Kentucky pawn shop owner Randy Hale. A man came into his store and claimed a tiller Hale was trying to sell was in fact his; when Hale wouldn't give it to him, but offered to sell it to him, he called the authorities. What happened next, according to police spokesman Shane Jacobs:
Ronnie Gilley built a business in Alabama, and then- Gov. Bob Riley wanted to shut it down . Now Gilley's bound for prison -- for defending himself improperly.
July 12, 2012 -- In the middle of the last decade, two business professors and a handful of Wall Street Journal reporters called attention to widespread backdating of employee stock options, launching a rich-hunt that cost numerous executives their jobs and five of them, at least for some time, their freedom.Now, The Atlas Society’s Business Rights Center has published a book by Roger Donway on one of those five cases—and on the victim at its center.
Travis Kalanick's Uber helps city dwellers get rides on demand in luxury cars, and he wants to launch a cheaper service, one closer in price to taxis. But Washington, D.C., Councilmember Mary Cheh proposed a law that would have imposed a price floor on such services -- and effectively prohibited the new service.
I'd like to take a moment to applaud the Pacific Legal Foundation and the legislature and governor of Missouri for putting an end to that state's certificate of necessity law for moving companies. The law gave established moving companies "the privilege of basically vetoing" a newcomer's application for a license, PLF says.
As the SEC produces yet more regulations, the New York Times gives us a striking quote: One man’s loophole is another man’s livelihood. The speaker is Bart Chilton, a Democrat on the SEC who advocates regulation and opposed this regulation for having, in a Times blogger's words, "loopholes wide enough for Wall Street to exploit."
How many people got HIV because the FDA didn't even want to consider approving a home test for the deadly virus? That's the question Roger Parloff over at Fortune raises now that the FDA has approved one:
The Atlas Society's director of advocacy, conducted a video interview with Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on his thought's on Ayn Rand's Atlas....
Here comes the government, like some red-white-and-blue monster, crushing people’s livelihoods and aspirations almost without noticing: a typical political horror story. That’s what the Las Vegas Review-Journal article about the amendment to the transportation bill that snuffed out the industry of selling people tobacco and paper, then letting them use roll-your-own-cigarette machines, sounds like at first. But if you notice three facts mentioned in the article, you might second-guess that judgment.
Over last week's holiday, New York businesses continued to advocate your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of a very large Coke . It's good to see them fighting back, but a spokesman for Mayor Michael R.
Our Atlas Summit was held Jun 28-July 1 in Washington, D.C., with an enthusiastic crowd--including a fair number of students--in attendance. If you missed the Summit, don't fret. We'll be publishing video of each presentation. Just sign up for our email updates (at left) to stay informed of releases.
A businessman was accused of "structuring" cash deposits of his income from farmers market sales, and now the federal prosecutor who took his money is accused of retaliating against the businessman for protesting to the press: In an e-mail to [Baltimore City Paper], Watt [the businessman's lawyer] paraphrases what he recalls [prosecutor] Cassella saying: “Well, Dave, now I have a problem. Your client spoke to the press and now I have to file charges. Otherwise it will appear that I was influenced by your client speaking to the press. Also, I don’t want the next person who I file against to think that he/she can gain leverage by talking to the press.”
It's "hard to find another social group persecuted on such a large scale" as businessmen, says Boris Titov. Ayn Rand, of course, called big-business men "America's Persecuted Minority," but as bad as things were for American businessmen in her time, and as much worse as they are today, Titov is ombudsman for business rights in a country where things are even worse: Over the past decade, he tells the BBC, "Russia has imprisoned nearly three million entrepreneurs, many unjustly."
Americans are again celebrating Independence Day in traditional fashion, enjoying themselves with family and friends, picnics and fireworks.
Remember the Abacus case against Goldman Sachs that the BRC's Roger Donway said involved a "moral counter-revolution" ? Well, Goldman is still facing litigation over that deal: a judge recently refused to dismiss a lawsuit by people who'd bought Goldman stock .
If the notion of forcing Netflix to tailor movies for the deaf and blind or making banks replace their ATMs with audio-equipped versions ...
A deaf person and two deaf-advocacy organizations are suing Netflix for making movies available for instant online viewing without providing
June 15, 2012 - This is my second Father’s Day as the daddy of Sophia and Allegra, my 17-month-old fraternal twin girls. I never thought I’d meet the right woman but—wow!—I did and thus, well into my fifth decade, we decided to become parents. The day the girls were born was the most wonderful and memorable of my life.Evolution programmed us with a sex drive that keeps the species going. But contraception now makes parenthood a choice. Evolution also has programmed int
Among the challenges businesses face as a result of President Obama's health-insurance reform law is uncertainty . But even if the Supreme Court puts an end to that law, the Wall Street Journal notes, it won't put an end to the regime uncertainty surrounding health reform .