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Wednesday, February 01, 2006


If it Saves One Life ...
How many times has that question be used to justify another law or regulation, usually resulting in unintended consequences?

I thought of that upon reading the sad story of a golfer who died recently. Not because of lightning, or even being hit by an errant tee shot. Nope, a Georgia man died of head injuries after he fell out of a golf cart that his son was driving. Will we soon hear someone call for seat belts on golf carts?

No word on whether alcohol was involved, but given that the accident occurred near the first hole, that's unlikely.

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"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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