Vol. 39 No. 4, August 2007
Index
- Assault behind bars.
- Exporting drug prices.
- An epidemic of meddling.
- reason news.
- The folly of Southern hospitality.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Free at last: the Innocence Project hits 200.
- Northern lights out: Canada bans bulbs.
- Driving while armed: the ACLU defends gun rights.
- Policing immigrants: Californians force enforcement.
- Quotes.
- Trapped in Gitmo: nowhere to go.
- Food waste: foreign aid inefficiency.
- Political BS.
- Testing metal: the DOJ targets e-gold.
- Ahzar Zaidi of Roswell, Georgia, faces up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for having too many cars.
- An Indian court has issued an arrest warrant for Richard Gere.
- An unnamed Indiana man spent 17 months behind bars for stealing a soda.
- Before you shake your moneymaker in New York City, make sure the bar you're in is licensed for that sort of thing.
- Georgette Prince was coming out of an Akron, Ohio, convenience store when a man pushed her back into the store, pointed a gun at her, and told her to get on the ground.
- It took Brian Seaton nine months and cost him 100,000 [pounds sterling] to clear his name after police in Leicestershire, England, charged him with possessing a knife in public without good reason.
- Meanwhile, Malaysian authorities banned the weekly TV talk show Sensasi after a guest, actress Rosnah Mat Aris, addressed gossip linking her to a younger man.
- Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was possessed by a demon.
- Regulate thyself: the FTC doesn't step in.
- A nation on the dole.
- Insecurity complex: myths of job volatility.
- No need for speed: a town re-regulates its roads.
- In praise of digital disorder.
- The real Bill Richardson: is the presidential contender a libertarian Democrat?
- Jerry Falwell's paradoxical legacy: political victories and cultural failures.
- Tony the nanny: Tony Blair's shameful record on civil liberties.
- Dying for lifesaving drugs: will desperate patients destroy the pharmaceutical system that produces tomorrow's treatments?
- Our intangible riches: World Bank economist Kirk Hamilton on the planet's real wealth.
- The limits of anti-Kelo legislation: reformers are trying to outlaw eminent domain abuse. But will the laws they're passing be effective?
- Robert Heinlein at 100: how the science fiction master created the template for our looser, hipper, more pluralist world.
- The right to own a bazooka: and other inalienable rights.
- Getting beyond Roe: why returning abortion to the states is a good idea.
- The fetishist next door: the all-American appeal of Bettie Page.
- Hitler's Handouts: inside the Nazis' welfare state.
- From UNIVAC to Google: a computer in every kitchen?
- When coinages clash.