Links

• Don Boudreaux publishes a letter from a small business owner to his employees explaining why their hours are being reduced. It's not because they are bad workers.

• Ron Bailey explains why biotech crops are good for the environment while an agricultural expert says Africans would be well advised to steer clear of organic farming.

• More environmental hypocrisy from Gisele Bundchen and Al Gore. And here are some silly predictions from environmentalists on the original Earth Day.

• Japan is holding hearings, streamed online, in which bureaucrats are being forced to defend their spending. Make sure to check out the part about the 3-D movie theater.

• The Chamber of Commerce doesn't regard Rep. Ron Paul as a particularly good friend of business. Basically because Paul is against big government.

• ObamaCare: Georgetown professor Randy Barnett claims the insurance mandate is in trouble, the Columbus Dispatch says health care reform amounts to malpractice, and Peter Suderman explains why Rep. Henry Waxman decided to cancel his promised health care hearings.