Corporate Welfare Queen Kills 25

Pitch perfect exposition of the way(s) in which the regulatory state destroys free markets by absolving businesses of liability for their malfeasance. Sideshow - it's guys like this that make me queasy about the supposed libertarian underpinnings of the Tea Parties...

Watching recent news on CEO Don Blankenship of Massey Energy — renowned for falling spectacularly short of industry safety standards which are themselves almost nonexistent, and most lately for hosting the site of the worst mining disaster in decades — I got the feeling I’d heard of this guy before.

(link) [Center for a Stateless Society]

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