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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 16 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Wed, 16 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ When my wife was a liberal, she complained that libertarian reasoning is coldhearted. Since markets produce winners and losers -- and many losers did nothing wrong -- market competition is cruel. It must seem so.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/05/16/making_life_fair 1261a06e-b653-4927-a8d2-80496fe5a9cc Wed, 16 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT A child leaving home alone for the first time takes a risk. So does the entrepreneur who opens a new business. I no more want government to prevent us from doing these things than I want it to keep us in padded cells.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/05/09/creating_a_riskfree_world 1232717b-c6e8-4f0d-ab37-a82369ea2da1 Wed, 09 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT The human brain is torn between simple intuition and the more complex hard work of figuring out the unintended consequences of any policy. Who doesn't like thinking about trees and greenery and happy animals? Who... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/05/02/keeping_nature_exactly_as_is__forever fe2012e9-d1e9-48a1-b0f2-3e8c032680ec Wed, 02 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Instinct tells us to fear poison. If our ancestors were not cautious about what they put in their mouths, they would not have survived long enough to produce us. Unfortunately, a side effect of that cautious impulse is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/04/25/the_assault_on_food 79d38790-47f8-401f-9480-6a320f1894b4 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT We spend too much time waiting for orders -- and money -- from Washington. The collapse of the housing bubble gave politicians a license to do what they wanted to do all along: spend. The usual checks on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/04/18/creators_oped 043b0591-1cef-4a10-842e-bc29f54064a5 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT I'm suspicious of superstitions, like astrology or the belief that "green jobs will fix the environment and the economy." I understand the appeal of such beliefs. People crave simple answers and want to believe that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/04/11/creators_oped 66a26edd-1415-4be5-ae6d-b1e869b0412e Wed, 11 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Pssst. Want to buy some Stossels? They're my own currency with my face on them. Why should you trust them? Because I promise to redeem them for gold. And I'm reliable. I have money in the bank and a job that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/04/04/creators_oped dd64fd1d-cfc8-4a56-af2d-71c2bde15833 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Politicians say they "create jobs." In fact, only the private sector generates the information needed to create real, productive jobs. Since this current post-recession job recovery is the slowest in 80 years,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/03/28/creators_oped 08256c13-bcd0-4711-9dd6-48ce59fb6fce Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT President Obama says he want to make society more fair. Advocates of big government believe fairness means taking from rich people and giving to others: poor people; or people who do things politicians approve of, like... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/03/21/what_is_fair a240d0fe-53b0-4d5c-9b55-9aab984fd086 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT "If you have 10,000 regulations," Winston Churchill said, "you destroy all respect for law." He was right. But Churchill never imagined a government that would add 10,000 year after year. That's what we have in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/03/14/creators_oped ee458d28-16ec-4e1e-873a-73c1f6514181 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT Now that Mitt Romney is likely to be the Republican nominee, we can expect new attacks on his "vulture capitalism." That's how Rick Perry characterized his private equity work. Newt Gingrich's supporters ran an ad about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/03/07/creators_oped 4f74f33a-6787-40d5-9981-479c28237278 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT Unlike Bill Clinton, President Obama admits he inhaled!. "Frequently," he said. "That was the point." People laugh when politicians talk about their drug use. The audience laughed during a 2003 CNN Democratic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/02/29/creators_oped c412753d-f8f9-457b-b5b7-253bd8635f2e Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Want to open a business in America? It isn't easy. In Midway, Ga., a 14-year-old girl and her 10-year-old sister sold lemonade from their front yard. Two police officers bought some. But the next day,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/02/24/creators_oped 544c1c01-08b1-4292-84f5-04515ad12172 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Imagine this family budget: Last year, you earned $24,700. But you spent $37,900, incurring $13,300 in debt, and you were already $153,500 in debt. So you say, "I promise I'll spend $300 less this year!" ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2012/02/22/creators_oped ab714719-ea6e-487b-a01e-390c7cecd75a Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT