Vol. 36 No. 3, July 2004
Index
- Protectionism in politics and prose.
- Regulation for dummies.
- Fools for communism.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Corporate soldiers: privatizing warfare.
- Search 'n' sniff: doggie-style fourth amendment.
- Outlaw editors: change a lede, go to jail.
- Pumping up: fuming over oil prices.
- Quote.
- Source.
- Audits of New Jersey preschool programs found that money was spent on items including prime beef, fish, cat litter, denture cleaner, and gift certificates.
- Corrections Canada won't allow prison guards to wear vests that prevent them from being stabbed by inmates.
- If the patrons at MacDinton's Irish Pub in Tampa, Florida, don't stop drinking so much, the establishment could go out of business.
- In other education news, six teachers in Gwinnett County, Georgia, may have to pay back a total of $30,000 in pay raises.
- Miracle in Helena: smoking bans and heart attacks.
- School officials in Merrillville, Indiana, have banned students from wearing the color pink.
- The Florentine Boar, the centerpiece of Great Britain's oldest public park, stood for more than 100 years before it was damaged during World War II.
- The Turkish Army has started collecting intelligence on those it suspects might try to undermine the government.
- When Hyundai wanted to build a test track in California City, California, the local government seized 700 acres of land under a state law allowing it to condemn land that is "urbanized and blighted," even though the land is mostly pristine desert.
- Balance sheet.
- Defending divorce: anger, bargaining, acceptance.
- Flat-tax perspective.
- Regulating radios: broadcast flag at half-mast.
- Discussing disgust.
- Lies and Medicare: not necessarily the new.
- Only money: campaign finance reform bites supporters in the rear.
- Carrying the torch of freedom.
- Under the radar: political correctness never died.
- Do the Lynndie hop: how to explain abuses at Abu Ghraib.
- Fascists have feelings, too: or: "an anti-defamation league of their own.".
- 10 truths about trade: hard facts about offshoring, imports, and jobs.
- Confessions of a "woman-owned business" owner: how I learned to love quotas.
- Grave injustice: federal laws about burial remains put politics before science.
- Bloody shame: unnecessary regulations are making blood banks run dry.
- Ulysses unbound: why does a book so bad it "defecates on your bed" still have so many admirers?
- Big Mac attack: Super Size Me asks the question: is McDonald's unappealing--or irresistible?
- Cheating heart: does capitalism teach people to break the rules?
- The fun-loving founding father: Gouverneur Morris, the first modern American.
- Flag-draped memories: the strange history of war death imagery.
- When ads campaign.
- Cooling the global-warming debate.