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Which states are most friendly/hostile toward small business?

Walter Olson — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:53:27 +0000

I’ve got some comments on an interesting new survey from the Kauffman Foundation/Thumbtack.com. [Cato at Liberty; & welcome Neal Boortz readers]

Related: “When Julia tried to start a small business” [Coyote]

Walter Olson — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:58:57 +0000

More views on California prisoner release: Steve Chapman (California can incarcerate less and be safer), John Eastman/City Journal (state’s pols share blame for conditions), Sarah Hart, FedSoc SCOTUScast (sharing dissenters’ foreboding). Earlier here and here;
Stephen Carter, “Economic Stagnation Explained, at 30,000 Feet” [Bloomberg/RCP]
Long-running legal campaign aimed at blocking new coal-fired power plants [Conn Carroll, Examiner]
Unconsciously? “We hope it sends a message that if you … unconsciously ignore the law, you could go to jail.” [WSJ Law Blog on prosecution of executive following pool drain entrapment death]
Following outcry: “Disney withdraws application to trademark ‘SEAL Team 6′” [AP, earlier]
More fact-checking of Scott Horton Guantanamo Harper’s article mysteriously awarded prize by ASME [Alex Koppelman/AdWeek, Joe Carter/First Things, Jack Shafer/Slate (citing "slipperiness and many flights of illogic"), FishBowlNY, Politico, Noah Davis/Business Insider, Cutline, earlier] Horton is a lecturer at Columbia Law and his piece drew on work done at Seton Hall Law. More: defense of Horton at leftist TruthOut site;
Germans hesitate to join nanny-state parade [four years ago on Overlawyered]