Since the development of the science of toxicology in the sixteenth century, its guiding principle has been that “the dose makes the poison.” It is a rule that applies to the medicines used by patients worldwide many billions of times a day. The right dose of aspirin can be a therapeutic godsend, but consuming too much can be lethal.

The quiet war Obama is waging on the economy and American families.

A nice essay by Brink Lindsey at Cato, analyzing some regulations that are strangling economic growth, with an explicitly bipartisan (multipartisan) appeal.

Those looking for a marketplace approach to the divisive climate change issue might consider the insights of George P. Shultz, a Republican who served in the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations and was Ronald’s Reagan’s secretary of state for almost seven years.