Three new assaults on life, liberty and property, courtesy of Reason's Hit-and-Run blog:
First, Arizona is joining Louisiana and Oklahoma in baning anti-war shirts.
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts State legislature will soon pass the first in the nation state wide trans fat ban. The Massachusetts Restaurant Association is supporting the ban because statewide regulation is preferable to a "patchwork of local rules." Hey guys, if state regulation is preferable to local regulation then why not push for a national trans fat ban?
The Massachusetts legislature also wants to protect people from their poor economic choices. So the legislature is going to make taxpayers bail out those who bought houses with adjustable rate mortgages, only to find themselves unable to make the payments when the mortgage rate was adjusted up.
