On April 30, The Atlas Society published audio of Rep. Paul Ryan speaking at a TAS event in 2005. In the audio he indicates tha

Aug 13, 2012

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Now that Wisconsin representative Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney’s choice for vice president on the GOP ticket, Ryan’s plan for dealing with the

Aug 11, 2012

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Edward Hudgins

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In Holland, Mich., the law under which Nathan Duszynski's hot-dog cart was shut down has not only blocked the 13-year-old's entrepreneurial

Aug 10, 2012

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Congratulations to the Institute for Justice on a victory for business rights in Utah. A federal court has ruled that the state's requirement that hair braiders get cosmetology licenses -- which require 2,000 hours of training that might not even cover hair braiding! -- is unconstitutional .

Aug 10, 2012

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Today the Federal Trade Commission—just one of many government agencies here and abroad that have been harassing one of the world’s ...

Aug 9, 2012

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The war between expropriators and producers has taken a wholly expected turn in France. The recently-elected socialist government announced

Aug 9, 2012

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Edward Hudgins

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Today NASA's Curiosity Rover landed on Mars. Its advanced instruments should bring humanity closer to knowing whether life exists on the Re

Aug 6, 2012

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Edward Hudgins

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When government proposes to nationalize a major industry, it is a loudspeaker blaring the message that the country is abandoning the market

Jul 25, 2012

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Walter Donway

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The Washington Post yesterday gave us a piece covering antitrust law as a competitive field: BRUSSELS — Europe may be a financial disaster and a faded military force, but in at least one arena it has emerged as champ: Regulators here are challenging the power of America’s technology titans. And they are winning.

Jul 23, 2012

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Too many Americans are losing the ability to take care of themselves and are instead looking to the government to run their lives for them..

Jul 20, 2012

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Gen LaGreca

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I'm beginning to think someone has gotten the wrong answer. Recently, I blogged about ATM accessibility rules: The machines must be

Jul 20, 2012

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How scared would you be if I said on this blog that you were a bad person? How about if I blogged, not for The Atlas Society, but for President Obama's reelection campaign? Much more in the latter than in the former, I imagine, and with good reason: there's not much The Atlas Society could or would do based on my comment -- certainly not by comparison of what's within the power of a U.S. president.

Jul 20, 2012

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What does it take to get a small-business owner arrested? Not much, sometimes. Take Kentucky pawn shop owner Randy Hale. A man came into his store and claimed a tiller Hale was trying to sell was in fact his; when Hale wouldn't give it to him, but offered to sell it to him, he called the authorities. What happened next, according to police spokesman Shane Jacobs:

Jul 19, 2012

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Ronnie Gilley built a business in Alabama, and then- Gov. Bob Riley wanted to shut it down . Now Gilley's bound for prison -- for defending himself improperly.

Jul 18, 2012

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July 12, 2012 -- In the middle of the last decade, two business professors and a handful of Wall Street Journal reporters called attention to wide­spread backdating of employee stock options, launching a rich-hunt that cost numerous executives their jobs and five of them, at least for some time, their freedom.Now, The Atlas Society’s Business Rights Center has published a book by Roger Donway on one of those five cases—and on the victim at its center.

Jul 17, 2012

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As the SEC produces yet more regulations, the New York Times gives us a striking quote: One man’s loophole is another man’s livelihood. The speaker is Bart Chilton, a Democrat on the SEC who advocates regulation and opposed this regulation for having, in a Times blogger's words, "loopholes wide enough for Wall Street to exploit."

Jul 11, 2012

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I'd like to take a moment to applaud the Pacific Legal Foundation and the legislature and governor of Missouri for putting an end to that state's certificate of necessity law for moving companies. The law gave established moving companies "the privilege of basically vetoing" a newcomer's application for a license, PLF says.

Jul 11, 2012

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Travis Kalanick's Uber helps city dwellers get rides on demand in luxury cars, and he wants to launch a cheaper service, one closer in price to taxis. But Washington, D.C., Councilmember Mary Cheh proposed a law that would have imposed a price floor on such services -- and effectively prohibited the new service.

Jul 11, 2012

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The Atlas Society's director of advocacy, conducted a video interview with Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on his thought's on Ayn Rand's Atlas....

Jul 10, 2012

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Edward Hudgins

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How many people got HIV because the FDA didn't even want to consider approving a home test for the deadly virus? That's the question Roger Parloff over at Fortune raises now that the FDA has approved one:

Jul 10, 2012

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