Link dump

• Headline of the day: "Cigna CEO: Don't repeal U.S. health law." This is why a good laugh is always in order when our friends on the left insist big government is needed as a check against corporations.

• Calls for privatization of the Pompeii Unesco world heritage site following the collapse of a 2,000 year old building.

• Megan McArdle looks at where drugs come from. No, not Mexico -- the legal kind. 

• The Wall Street Journal profiles a Hungarian man who predicted the financial crisis 70 years before it took place. Government regulation figures prominently. 

• Bill Frezza on regulation and the rise of private stock markets. 

• Tad DeHaven says Congress should cut spending to 2008 levels, providing some graphical evidence to make his case.

• Jon Basil Utley explains how excessive EPA regulations are hurting the economy.

• Warren Meyer profiles the man who saved the whales.