It's been said that speed limits and enforcement is more a cash cow than a public safety issue.

Great analysis on the recent Proposition 8 ruling and examination of modern law with regards to discrimination. Must read.

The CRTC is useless.

An argument for free market regulation of Wall Street. In other words because government regulation can be extremely slow and limited, litigation can be efficient in its place.

Too big to be sued?

Moneyquote: "Chicago passed its ban on handguns in 1982, one of the most restrictive in the U.S. It is that law that is being challenged in the Supreme Court.

A study last year by economist Carl Moody of William & Mary College found that after the ban was imposed, city crime rates rose significantly, almost immediately. The city is more dangerous now than it was before the ban, the study concluded, relative to the 24 largest American cities.

Officials here point to a 10 percent reduction in the murder rate in the past two years as
proof that the handgun ban is beginning to work. Figures show that 81 percent of the murders in the city were gun-related; nearly 60 percent were gang-related.

But another statistic has police and parents deeply disturbed. Chicago has surpassed Los Angeles with the highest youth homicide rate in the nation. In the 2008-09 school year, a record 36 city public school students were murdered, mostly by underage gang members, according to police data. It was the third straight year the numbers had risen."

Or in other words, gun bans don't work.

Copy of the 1998 depositions of Bill Gates in the US Justice Department's antitrust litigation against Microsoft