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By: Ed Driscoll » Send Lawyers, Guns, And Ballpoints

Ed Driscoll » Send Lawyers, Guns, And Ballpoints — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:05:52 +0000

[...] their wares. For my video look at CPSIA’s deleterious impact on books published before 1985, click here. Filed under: Bobos In Paradise, Liberal Fascism, The Future and its Enemies, The New [...]

By: Ed Driscoll » CPSIA: Handing The GOP An issue?

Ed Driscoll » CPSIA: Handing The GOP An issue? — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:28:32 +0000

[...] speaking of CPSIA, my recent “2009: A Book Banning Odyssey” video, is now up on YouTube, for those who prefer (or whose Internet connections prefer) that video [...]

By: Ed Driscoll

Ed Driscoll — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:54:58 +0000

Fred, The Snopes page is rather ambiguously worded. Yes, as I understand it, their rules were relaxed a bit in regards to toys and like; Ed Morrissey had a good post on that topic at Hot Air. But as the Snopes page notes:

A CPSC announcement issued on 6 February 2009 regarding that agency's enforcement policy also stated that they would not "impose penalties against anyone for making, importing, distributing, or selling" certain specified items, including any "ordinary children's book printed after 1985." Of course, vendors of second-hand products still face the quandary that even though the CPSC has stated they are exempt from the testing and certification requirements of the CPSIA, they still have to ensure that the items they sell meet the new standards for lead and phthalate content.

And that post-1985 cut-off date for books was mentioned in my video, in my radio interview with Walter Olson, and I believe in his City Journal article as well.

By: Fred Butler

Fred Butler — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:34:17 +0000

Any thoughts about snopes.com, the urban legend debunking page, declaring this story as “false” and saying people are getting hysterical over nothing?

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/pending/cpsia.asp

Fred

By: Ed Driscoll

Ed Driscoll — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:01:32 +0000

Aloysiusmiller: According to Wikipedia (see also Govtrack.us) the chief sponsor of CPSIA was Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), later seen comparing Harry Reid, and anybody else who would attempt to block Roland Burriss' Senate appointment as being the next George Wallace or Bull Connor.

By: aloysiusmiller

aloysiusmiller — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:45:48 +0000

Ron B

Pushed by who? Whose agenda was this driven by? What government agency wrote the bill and handed it to the politicians?

By: Oakley

Oakley — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:12:18 +0000

More insanity from the fruits and nuts in Congress.

We had all better be sure to pay attention to who we are voting for in 2010! Get these bums out!

By: buckz

buckz — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:11:46 +0000

eburchelli,
That’s exactly what they want.

Suddenly this lead appeared in the ink? Overnight?
This is a decoy.

By: eburchelli

eburchelli — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:30:45 +0000

It must be why all of a sudden there are so many reissues on stores bookshelves. Which for a buyer and reader, that’s a good thing because those older used books are often in very poor condition.

But the worst of this is, that it also destroys books that were popular before Political Correctness. Now we are left with books touting the agenda of the left.