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Casket Salesmen Required to Have Embalming Expertise

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The Tennessee Board of Funeral Directors ordered closed a casket business offering 30 to 50 percent discounts off competitors' prices because its owner - a Baptist pastor - was not a licensed funeral director, as is mandated under Tennessee law ...
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Frank Wolf’s Journey Through Hallowed Ground Proposal Draws Criticism from Heritage Foundation; Lashes Out at Principled Critics

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From Peyton Knight: The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership, a taxpayer-supported gang of preservation interest groups that apparently exists primarily to lobby for Rep. Frank Wolf's (R-VA) "Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act" (H.R. 319), put out a ...
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Flower Arranging Requires Government Approval

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photo credit: Institute for Justice The dream of becoming professional florists is on hold for three accomplished floral arrangers in Louisiana because the state mandates they pass a $150 two-part flower exam partly judged by arbitrary and selective criteria. A ...
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Government Puts Rat Control Business Out of Business

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photo credit: Institute for Justice The Arizona Structural Pest Control Commission (ASPCC) halted a teenager's innovative - and popular - rat control business because he failed to hold a $78 state-regulated commercial pest control license and pass an exam covering ...
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On the Consumer Alliance on Energy Security and the OCS

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On April 30, The Consumer Alliance on Energy Security issued a press release on the need to expand access to domestic energy supplies in the Outer Continental Shelf. The online version of the press release suggests the National Center for ...
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Addition Request Leads to Extortion Demands

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As conditions for granting a building permit, the Washington County, Oregon government demanded that Grimm's Fuel Company pay it $1,200 up front, build concrete sidewalks and make various other public works improvements. Addition Request Leads to Extortion Demands Grimm's Fuel ...
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Historic Home — or Run-Down Shack?

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For over two decades, a developer battled Washington, D.C. officials for permission to replace a so-called "historic" run-down shack - which the developer owned - with commercial and residential units for the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Tiny "Historic" Shack Prevents Development ...
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Treehouse Fight Costs Family, Taxpayers $58,000

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photo credit: saveourtreehouse.com The government of Clinton, Mississippi goes after a family's treehouse, after granting a permit to build. Case ends up before the Mississippi Supreme Court. $58,000 Spent Fighting Over a Treehouse Two anonymous complaints about a treehouse have ...
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Separation of Church and State?

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A church in downtown Warrenton, Virginia must use local government-mandated wood instead of fiberglass to fully restore its deteriorating steeple - at a cost of $262,000 more for the church. City Tells Church It Must Spend $262,000 For over 130 ...
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Sheryl Crow’s Toilet Paper “Spoof”

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The Mother Jones blog says actress (or is she a singer?) Sheryl Crow was just doing a "spoof" when, writing on her blog, she suggested limiting toilet paper use. April Rabkin of Mother Jones thinks it is funny that the ...
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