By Jim HarperI’ve seen plenty of stories and gotten a fair number of calls from reporters about the national broadband plan. They generally want to get some insight from down in the weeds of the communications world. What do you think of this part? What do you think of that?

By David Rittgers

The
Cayman Island Sea Turtle Farm was established by entrepreneur and
libertarian hero Antony Fisher in 1968. Unfortunately, the farm
went bankrupt when the trade in sea turtle products was banned
internationally. Now a government-owned corporation, the farm is a
huge tourist attraction supplying turtle meat to the local market;
it also releases thousands of turtles into the wild. Aware of the
vexed history of the farm, Reason Science Correspondent
Ronald Bailey traveled to the Cayman Islands to discover just how
tasty sea turtle can be.

Great piece in the Portland Oregnonian about how
factory workers in China, far from being slaves, are now earning
enough to buy real estate and send their kids to colleges so that
they won't have to work in factories. Here's the beginning:

WUHU, China -- Years after activists accused Nike and other
Western brands of running Third World sweatshops, the issue has
taken a surprising turn. [...]

Writing in the Washington Examiner, legal scholars Josh
Blackman and Ilya Shapiro wonder if Justice Antonin Scalia will
abandon originalism when it comes time to finally decide
McDonald v. Chicago:

The Court could take two possible routes, both under the
Fourteenth Amendment, to apply, or “incorporate,” the Second
Amendment right against the states: the Due Process Clause and the
Privileges or Immunities Clause.

By Julian SanchezA new BBC poll is garnering plenty of press attention for its striking finding that 78% of global respondents believe that Internet access “should be a fundamental right of all people.” Fascinating!  Except… what exactly does that mean?

By now, talking smack about environmental
doomsayer and neo-Malthusian
Paul Ehrlich should fall solidly under the heading "dead horse, the
beating of." But Ehrilch is some sort of zombie pony: no matter how
many times he is proven wrong, he rises again as a commentator,
consulted and quoted by otherwise discriminating people. He was
wrong about global starvation, wrong about pesticide-induced riots,
wrong about race war, and wrong about nuclear annihilation.

By Michael F. CannonThe rationale for your proposed tax on high-cost health insurance plans is that it would encourage people to purchase less-comprehensive coverage and thereby reduce health care spending.
If that’s a good idea, then why is it bad when insurers raise premiums?