Vol. 36 No. 8, January 2005
Index
- The public sector and the private.
- John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties.
- Ten reasons to fire George W. Bush.
- Age of Propaganda.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Foul ballpark: gays vs. sports welfare.
- Speed tracers: Sudafed clampdown.
- Fannie business: dodgy, accounting at Fannie Mae.
- Homeschool revolt: parents resist regulation.
- Quote.
- Sources.
- And when Indian cops caught Bhuli Devi selling goods without a license on a train, they allegedly demanded a bribe and, when she refused to pay, threw her from the moving train.
- Free the Nile: liberalism in Egypt.
- Gerardo Garcia wanted to grow his hair long so he could donate it to a group that makes wigs for children who lose their own hair due to cancer treatment.
- Medicinal grass: petitioning for pot.
- Members of Sweden's Left Party have proposed a special tax on men to cover the "social cost" of violence against women.
- Security screeners at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport failed to spot one out of four fake bombs and weapons that inspectors tried to sneak past them.
- Stancy Nesby has been arrested seven times in 15 months, although she has never committed a crime.
- The Detroit City Council wants to earmark $38 million for a highly specific community development project.
- The Indian government has fired the entire staff of a high school after learning that none of them had worked for the last 23 years.
- Two Chicago building inspectors are out of jobs after being accused of lying on their applications.
- Balance sheet.
- Allah my children: soap opera controversy.
- Unhealthy regulations.
- How America grew rich.
- Private flight: Houston, you have a problem.
- All tomorrow's partisans: the culture war after the 2004 election.
- The problem with Putin: an unreliable ally, an unlikely democrat.
- Iraq's summer soldiers: liberal hawks as ideological deserters.
- Civil liberties and enemy combatants: why the Supreme Court's widely praised rulings are bad for America.
- Fly the frugal skies: how low-cost airlines have transformed Europe--and what it means for America.
- Cut-rate diplomas: how doubts about the government's own "Dr. Laura" exposed a resume fraud scandal.
- Hayek for the 21st Century: biographer Bruce Caldwell on the Road to Serfdom author's enduring lessons about bad planning, distributed information, and the liberating power of choice.
- Imperial waltz: is American power good, bad, or distressingly reluctant?
- Trans-Atlantic tripe: Jeremy Rifkin's theory of failed states.
- John Locke Lite: the strange philosophy of a "left libertarian".
- Among the non-believers: the tedium of dogmatic atheism.
- Dear Playwright: Team America is not Kim Jong Il's first foray into musical drama.
- Shock me, Amadeus.