“Tort costs were $880 per U.S. citizen in 2005, meaning the average American family of four paid a ‘litigation tax’ of more than $3,500 due to increased costs from lawsuits and other liability expenses that force businesses to raise the price of products and services. That cost is equivalent to nearly an 8 percent tax on wages.”
I’ve now added “rent seeking” to my vocabulary. What a useful way to describe why so many lawyers are worse than unproductive citizens.
They’re calling ethanol what it is: A fraud and a scam.
So now we have a Republican President on the side of a stupid, wasteful, enviro-nut program, while the counter-culture rock and roll magazine is on the side of common sense.
And was that a white rabbit who just ran through my office?
Hitchens was right when he said unindicted co-conspirator CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper hasn’t “read nor understood” the First Amendment. Islamists have been using the threat of lawsuits to have books destroyed. The books just happen to be about how Islamic terror gets funded.
Here’s a story with huge implications for freedom of speech (all negative), and it’s apparently gone almost entirely unreported in the mainstream press. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, under threat of a law suit, Cambridge University Press has just agreed to pulp all unsold copies of the 2006 book, Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World. According to the Chronicle, this is the fourth such book on terrorism funding to be pursued by a libel action. The Chronicle quotes Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy, whose own book, Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed–and How to Stop It is one of the four books.
Publishers who cave to this kind of pressure are despicable weaklings. But, then, if you publish a book critical of any other religion, nobody threatens to behead you. So radical Islam is the most despicable party in this.
Someone has been slipping Paranoid Juice into the Breck Girl’s hairspray.
“They want to shut all of us up, Ed. That’s what this is all about. I’m amazed you’re still able to talk on the radio.
They don’t want to hear this stuff. And what we have to make clear is we’re gonna stand up and fight and we together, all of us, we will not be silenced.”
“They” do a lot of despicable things, don’t “they”? Whoever “they” are…
