Woods’s Law Cited in India

Although not generally a vain person, I once named a law after myself: according to Woods’s Law, “whenever the private sector introduces an innovation that makes the poor better off than they would have been without it, or that offers benefits or terms that no one else is prepared to offer them, someone — in the name of helping the poor — will call for curbing or abolishing it.”

U.S. Court: No You Do Not Own Your Own Body

Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to experimental drugs not approved by regulators, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday...

“The FDA’s policy of limiting access to investigational drugs is rationally related to the legitimate state interest of protecting patients, including the terminally ill, from potentially unsafe drugs with unknown therapeutic effects,” Judge Thomas Griffith wrote in Tuesday’s majority opinion.

Roads, Bridges, and Socialist Capital

The horrific bridge collapse in Minnesota has brought its share of news and commentary, much of it predictable. For example, writes William Anderson, the New York Times, which is relentless in its insistence that society is improved only through the growth of state power, wrote what essentially is a front-page editorial calling for higher taxes in Minnesota. Thus, we see the theme of the story: another tight-fisted Republican gives in to the reality that only higher taxes will provide safe bridges and roads. In other words, it is only a matter of taxation and money spent that determines things like bridge safety.
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