Links

Now you know how he could afford the camera phone.

• Did you know that there is a government program to provide poor people with cell phones? While such an idea may have been laughed at as recently as 10 years ago, I guess it's now a right. As Yakov Smirnoff would say, America, what a country!

• The New York Times discovers that profits incentivize pharmaceutical companies to produce life saving cancer drugs. But what happens when the government reduces those profits in the name of health care savings?

• A Massachusetts state legislator who advocated for higher sales and alcohol taxes has been caught buying liquor across the border in sales tax-free New Hampshire. I suppose no one is immune to the temptation of lower taxes.

• The Telegraph with the latest health care horror story out of the United Kingdom. Update: And taxpayer-financed Viagra for pedophiles!

• One American living in Iran explains why tightening economic sanctions on the country is a bad idea. I can't really think of a single time sanctions have had their desired effect, save perhaps South Africa in the 1980s.