20.8.03

THE EVOLUTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS. Common Sense and Wonder argues, "it is unbelievable that a guy cannot decide for himself who he wants to serve," with reference to a pizzeria proprietor in Denmark who refuses to serve German and French tourists account their governments' positions on the liberation of Iraq. Punch line: "Businesses that discriminate should be driven out of business by those that don't. That is the way we should fight discrimination.
" I suppose one could take on the whole concept of a common carrier, or property clothed with a public interest, but would one expect to roll that doctrine back in a week?

UPDATE: Power Line commends the pizzeria proprietor. I see all sorts of potential for a problem in the evolution of the public interest doctrine, particularly the "undue preference or prejudice" parts of common-carrier policy.

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