Comments on: CPSIA chronicles, February 27

By: CPSIA: the countable costs

CPSIA: the countable costs — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:10:22 +0000

[…] — the handicrafters’ livelihoods blasted, the families unable to find sturdy winter clothes at the Goodwill, the kids who can’t get their dirtbikes serviced, the threats to vintage children’s […]

By: As Usual, Congress is Pointing Fingers :: Liberty Maven

As Usual, Congress is Pointing Fingers :: Liberty Maven — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:07:25 +0000

[…] such as Amy Klobuchar, Jay Rockefeller, and Mark Pryor claim that the CPSIA allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to make […]

By: CPSIA on Metafilter

CPSIA on Metafilter — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:40:28 +0000

[…] coverage of the law’s appalling effects in such areas as thrift stores, youth motorcycles, ballpoint pens, and (so far with many of the worst effects postponed) toys, apparel, and […]

By: CPSIA on the radio: WMJI Cleveland

CPSIA on the radio: WMJI Cleveland — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:19:39 +0000

[…] They’d heard through a listener about the kids’ motorbike ban, and we also discussed ballpoint pens and pre-1985 kids’ books, as well as the question of whether anyone in Congress reads the […]

By: Happymom4

Happymom4 — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:44:50 +0000

Nothing to add, except “Kudos” for the reporting you are doing!
(And of course, it’s nice to have someone of your standing being one of those old ignorant “Mommy Bloggers”–Sarcastic Snorting!)

By: SmartGuy

SmartGuy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:41:07 +0000

Thank for your outstanding investigative reporting, something totally lacking in the “mainstream” dead tree press.

Small wonder the newspapers are dying.

By: The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : The Book Burning, Anti-Thrift Law

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : The Book Burning, Anti-Thrift Law — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:33:16 +0000

[…] on it here. And the single best place to track all its devastation is at Walter Olson’s Overlawyered. Bookstore owners are literally destroying old children’s books while thrift shops go out of […]

By: PhilG

PhilG — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:59:50 +0000

Since the Boston Globe, which featured the problems that CPSIA is causing for thrift shops and thrift shop patrons, on its front page today, is owned by the New York Times, maybe now the New York Times will finally get the message about the many problems that CPSIA is causing and print its own article(s) on it.