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The economics of smoking bans: For some restaurants or types of restaurants, the benefits of a smoke-free ordinance will outweigh the costs. For other restaurants and bars this will likely not be so. Blue-collar bars and restaurants, for example, may be especially hard hit, since, according to the National Opinion Research Center, smoking is more common among blue-collar workers and people with lower incomes.⁹ Bars that cater to these customers may suffer a loss of business. … [E]ntrepreneurs begin spending time and resources not looking for new ways to satisfy consumers, but attempting to influence government, spending thousands or millions lobbying. In this way, wealth is actually squandered.  … Members of Congress, those people most eager to tell the rest of us how to live, allow individual members to decide the smoking policy in their own offices on Capitol Hill.¹³ Restaurant and bar owners should have the same freedom, even if large majorities favor a ban on smoking. … By usurping the parental role, governments not only seize authority over children, but also make children out of adults.  http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=5449

Conservative compassion vs. liberal pity - The type of compassion that modern liberals claim as their own peculiar virtue is really a form of pity, milder perhaps than that which lies at the heart of the socialist orthodoxies, but dangerous in its own right. David Hume called pity “counterfeited” love. It is the false compassion that results when men exercise their kindness by committee. It is the look in the eyes of the welfare clerk or the public housing official. To be pitied by another man is to stand humiliated before him; however well-intentioned programs grounded in pity may be, they always end by laying low their intended beneficiaries. Pity does not lead to a flourishing in the pitied, though it may provoke their resentment, even their rage; the act of pitying is always a kind of strength condescending to weakness. Love awakens; pity oppresses. http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_3_conservative_compassion.html

P.J. O’Rourke on Social Security http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0599ponzi.htm

Free speech – we’re about to forget it http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/Ireland_20030801.html

What you can’t find on Amazon or Google http://www.gppf.org/pubs/commentaries/2003/technology.htm

Home schoolers debate the proper role of government in a free society http://www.freestateproject.org/newsletter/Aug03.pdf

House votes to restrict Patriot Act http://www.independent.org/tii/news/030730ONeil.html

Shopper cards – “surveillance central” Like a junkie, you may have a hard time giving up your favorite supermarket, but face it, it’s just not the store it used to be anymore. If you dislike data collection schemes enough to consider using a fake card or using some other trick to avoid participating, it's time to take a more effective stand. Cut up your fake card, and get moving -- to a different market. http://www.nocards.org/essays/nofakes.shtml

The case against gov’t software preferences http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=150

Homosexual normalization by the Episcopal church http://federalist.com/ECUSA.asp

I want a new drug http://www.townhall.com/columnists/richtucker/rt20030808.shtml

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