Vol. 44 No. 3, July 2012
Index
- Stupid Season: American politics is getting dumber even as fiscal catastrophe looms larger.
- NRACLU?
- Reaction.
- Red tape rising.
- Shoot First.
- Use a computer, go to jail: how a federal law can be used to prosecute almost anyone who visits a website.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Gross violations: obscenity prosecution.
- Liquor Quicker? Blue laws, debunked.
- Dislike: regulating Facebook.
- License to fill: new IRS rules.
- Quotes.
- Reason to carry: gun rules overturned.
- $50 Light bulb: DoE prize fail.
- Birth control decontrol.
- No to ObamaCare: health law polling.
- Sun sets on Solar: Europe nixes subsidies.
- A 12-year-old girl has sued Minnesota's Minnewaska School District, claiming officials at her middle school punished her for posts she made on her Facebook page and forced her, with the help of local law enforcement, to reveal the password and log-in information for her Facebook and email accounts.
- England's Nigel Robinson was trying to download some music when he came across images he believed to be child pornography.
- Hate-free hate crime: Dharun Ravi trial.
- Jerry Miller wants you to know he is still alive.
- Judy Sanchez says she heard someone pounding on the door of her Fitchburg, Massachusetts, apartment, and almost immediately after that someone started cutting through the door with a chainsaw.
- New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs fined Jamal Ahmad $30,000 after it learned that a 99-cent store he owned carried toy sheriff sets with fake handguns.
- Ottawa resident Doug Rochow noticed the city hadn't plowed the snow away from a couple of well-used footpaths near his home.
- Students at New Jersey's Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School say officials announced a 'no hugging policy and threatened to suspend students caught breaking that rule.
- Debt beats: penalizing forgiveness.
- Meth Babies: drug scare 2.0.
- ObamaCare, the Prequel.
- It's getting better.
- The Internet vs. the NEA: is Kickstarter a secret right-wing plot to undermine the national endowment for the arts?
- No to nukes: nuclear power isn't cost-effective, no matter how you do the math.
- ObamaCare on trial: the libertarian legal movement threatens Barack Obama's signature law.
- Wonky justice: the dubious policy assumptions behind ObamaCare's legal defense.
- Fair-weather federalists: why conservatives and progressives should unite against an overweening national government.
- Ron Paul's Clone army: the revolution spawns a new generation of GOP candidates in the mold of Dr. No.
- Are Atheists worse than rapists? Polls find that godless Americans are (still) wildly unpopular.
- The paternalists' bible: The Other America, which helped create modern welfare, turns 50.
- Wrecking ball.
- The cure for abject poverty: a new book argues that inclusive institutions offer the best path to prosperity.
- Video lame.
- Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television.
- Food on wheels.
- Fusionism revisited: Matt Welch vs. Jonah Goldberg and Nick Gillespie vs. Ann Coulter on the future of the libertarian-conservative alliance.
- Money doesn't talk.
- The freaky fetishes of Golden Age Hollywood: a tolerant new tell-all from Tinseltown's sexual fixer.
- How many Americans are realty out of work? A new bill aims to change the way we report unemployment.
- The transparency grenade.