FC: Happy New Year!

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

I'm back from holidays with family on the east coast and an email-less
trip to northern Arizona's high desert country. Happy New Year, and
thanks to Politech readers for your patience, knowledge, intelligence,
and submissions over the last year.

Below is the free-market.net newsletter, which I recommend, from Jan 1st.

-Declan

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Surge of new laws with new year
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ABC News/AP
   From elections to health care to gambling regulations, the
   new year brings further evidence that politicians like to
   dictate other people's behavior. (12/31/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/96055655.html


The new year's media consensus
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Reason
by Sam MacDonald
   Journalists' traditional end-of-year rankings of important
   stories are all focused on the terrorist attacks. But when
   the new year arrives, today's apparent consensus will revert
   to the controversy the chattering class has come to know and
   love. (12/28/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/183842229.html


New Year's resolutions for policymakers
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Carolina Journal/John Locke Foundation
by Michael L. Walden
   "As the calendar changes years, many of us make New Year's
   resolutions. Although most of them are personal, there's no
   reason why politicians and policymakers can't make resolutions
   about public policies and issues. Here's my list of five
   recommended resolutions for those involved in state and local
   economic policies." (12/19/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/112690587.html


Looking forward to the new year
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Citizens for a Sound Economy
by Paul Beckner
   "At the end of the year it is normal and customary at CSE
   to look back and discuss whether we made progress towards
   more freedom and liberty or took steps in the wrong direction.
   It is also a time when we try and say 'Thank you' to all of our
   activists, donors and friends and allies." (12/18/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/47080314.html


Tough times predicted for civil liberties
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Wired
   In an interview, the ACLU's Barry Steinhardt looks back over
   the past year and says, "[w]e are now in a grave period for
   civil liberties." He sees little chance for real improvement
   in the months ahead. (12/31/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/79574546.html


Space race for 2002
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Tech Central Station
by James Pinkerton
   "It's an irony of history that when the Russians were Reds,
   they saw space as an expression of communist destiny. Now,
   post-Soviet, the same Russians see space as an opportunity
   for capitalist profitability. And yet at the same time, the
   capitalist Americans have been resistant to any such private-
   sectoring of human space travel." (12/31/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/227266282.html

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Also:

Airport national guardsman shoots self in hip, rear:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/01/02/state2123EST0135.DTL



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