The potential threat to liberty in driverless cars
**Posted by Phineas
European Union to put speed limiters on all cars?
The world’s biggest nanny-state has decided that too many people are dying on Europe’s highways. Rather than leave that problem up to the member nations, the Euro-mandarins in Brussels have proposed to put speed-limiters, some of them satellite-controlled, on all cars. Go too fast, and Nanny puts on the brakes:
Socialist French government finds there really is such a thing as being “overtaxed”
Via the UK Telegraph comes a report that France’s Socialist government, famous for burdening their “rich” with extraordinarily high taxs, have come to the conclusion that they can’t tax their people (the rich and middle class) anymore without bleeding them dry (via Memeorandum) :
On Detroit, bankruptcy, and President Obama
An October 2012 tweet from our celebrity President:
“Bare-bones” employer health insurance plans coming thanks to #ObamaCare
The Wall Street Journal reports on what National Review Online’s Veronique de Rugy calls one more in the law of “unintended consequences” to the implementation of our President’s “signature law” – ObamaCare (via Memeorandum –bolded emphasis added by me):