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 --- Surge of new laws with new year ---------- 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 ---------- 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 ---------- 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 ---------- 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 ---------- 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 ---------- 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 --- Also: Airport national guardsman shoots self in hip, rear: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/01/02/state2123EST0135.DTL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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