This is Episode 3 of the 5-episode Love Gov series put out by the Independent Institute. It's titled "Love Gov: A Remedy for Health Choice."

I'm upset that the presidential candidates, all of them, rarely mention a huge problem: the quiet cancer that kills opportunity—regulation. The accumulated burden of it is the reason that America is stuck in the slowest economic recovery since the Depression.

During the past two weeks, a couple dozen residents of the Quincy Veterans home in Illinois have contracted Legionnaire’s disease and four have died. During this same period, six inmates at California’s San Quentin prison have been diagnosed with the infection, and several dozen more with suggestive symptoms are under observation.

I spent part of Sunday catching up on Wall Street Journals that had piled up when I was at my cottage in Canada. Some highlights, in chronological order.