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...firebrand preachers, Jonathan Edwards. But it seems that Massachusetts has only begun its own Great Awakening, with a proposal to repeal some of Edwards’ favorite blue laws still on the books. Created by paternalistic do-gooders who simultaneously serve as legislators, blue laws are those bastions of moral purity, those pesky legal devices that regulate amusements and “immoral” activity—often keeping alcohol locked-up for certain hours or days. On Tuesday, the brave souls of the House Ways and Means Committee approved a bill that would reverse Massachusetts’ blue...
These border states have taken advantage of Massachusetts’ antiquated moral rectitude by cashing in on the additional tax revenues of Sunday alcohol sales, capturing currency that would have otherwise lined Massachusetts’ drained coffers. To prevent this Sunday run for the border, legislators have already tempered the blue law with some economic sense. Angry that New Hampshire quickly usurped the Sunday market for alcohol, Massachusetts enacted a law allowing the Sunday sale of alcoholic beverages within 10 miles of the New Hampshire border. And as the law stands, while Sunday sales are verboten for most...
...what’s the moral of this heartwarming tale? Yes, it does offer hope that even in this day and age student activism can rear its head and help make the world a little more just. But it also tells us something about the power of patents, and suggests the unique role that universities occupy in their formulation. Because universities are situated “up-stream” in the research process, they have the ability to exert tremendous leverage over the extent of drug patents. When a university licenses a potential new drug to the private-sector...
...World Series victory would end the biggest subplot in professional sports, for both teams. The moral of this column is analogous to the moral of every graduation speech I’ve ever heard: the prize is the journey, not the destination...
...Someday, when the history of all them is known in detail, mankind will feel the revulsion it felt when the crimes of Stalin were brought to light.” Until that day, it’s the responsibility of free people everywhere to ensure that moral titans such as Juan Carlos González Leiva and Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello are not forgotten or abandoned...