Vol. 40 No. 4, August - August 2008
Index
- The uses of hyperbole: exaggerated doomsday forecasts are false, regrettable, inevitable, and possibly necessary.
- Free ride.
- Serve the (old) people.
- When coalitions dissolve.
- 'Technology is at the center'.
- No child left behind: Texas abuses children to prevent abuse.
- 35 years ago in reason.
- Bluff City bluster: tickets for terror.
- In the raw: contraband milk.
- Soda soldiers: drinking age debate.
- Absolute immunity: sue your D.A.!(Brief article)
- Quotes.
- Taco turmoil: food truck fight.
- Feds in the fishbowl: whatever floats your boat.
- Please plea me: false confessions.
- Rough gravel.
- Course correction: classroom interference.
- Daphne Beasley, principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School in Memphis, Tennessee, doesn't like public displays of affection.
- Dorothy Simpson suffers from an irregular heartbeat that gives her an increased chance of heart failure and stroke.
- Federal air marshals say some of their members have been harassed at airports, even kept from boarding planes they are scheduled to guard, because their names match those on the federal no-fly list.
- In 1992, when Lino Nakwa was 12, he was kidnapped by the Sudanese People's Liberation Army and held captive for about a month.
- Laura Todd has died several times during the last eight years.
- Million-dollar B.A.? Bucks for baccalaureates.
- Nepal's government has authorized soldiers and police to shoot to kill anyone protesting the Olympic flame as it makes its way up Mount Everest.
- When Adam Carroll deployed to Iraq as part of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, he asked his father to take care of his two dogs.
- Whitewater, Wisconsin, Police Chief James Coan involved at least two detectives and several other city employees--all during working hours--in a quest to find the identity of the pseudonymous John Adams.
- Collateral damage: drug informant outrage.
- Information, please.
- Getting his goat: religious freedom in Texas.
- Obscenely prosecuted.
- Look who's coming in third! With Bob Barr's nomination, the Libertarian Party is threatening to achieve historical relevance.
- First amendment lite: how the feds police liquor-related thought crime.
- Carbon-based prohibition: if some environmentalists have their way, simple math suggests life as we know it will end.
- What's the matter with Chicago and Seattle and New York and Boston ...? We rank the worst nanny-state cities in America.
- An alliance for freedom? Republican strategist Grover Norquist insists the Leave Us Alone Coalition is alive and well.
- Earning their keep: a new breed of urban Catholic high school asks disadvantaged kids to work for their tuition.
- Crying wolf: are we all fascists now?
- The day the music dies: why your tunes won't play for sure.
- Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground.
- Conservatives against empire: The forgotten tradition of the antiwar right.
- The afterlife of American clothes: Haitian entrepreneurs find value in our castoffs.
- The (diminishing) return of Pandering: politicians keep doling out giveaways to a public that increasingly doesn't want any.
- Hope floats.