Archive for December, 2003

Shots in the Dark

You might think it’s big news when a panel of experts appointed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), usually a gun control booster, concludes there’s no good evidence that legal restrictions on firearms do what they’re supposed to do. Yet The New York Times and The Washington Post, which have given […]

Pot Luck

Roscoe Filburn and Diane Monson both got into trouble with the federal government because of plants they grew. The future size and shape of that government
hinges on whether those plants were any of its business—and, if so, why.

Filburn, an Ohio farmer, grew 23 acres of wheat, 12 more than he was allowed under the Agricultural […]