Vol. 40 No. 5, October 2008
Index
- Illegal editor: immigration restrictions hurt legal residents.
- Classical Gasbags.
- Hear! Hear the pipes are calling.
- The War on Renters.
- Corrections.
- Fresh From the Farm.
- The Birth of the Nuppie.
- Would President McCain obey the law? Parsing the candidate's straight talk on wiretapping Americans.
- 35 years ago in reason.
- Cheaters prosper: corruption on the Nile.
- Keep it clean: Supreme Court laundry.
- Don't drink the water: the politics of rain.
- Fake speed bumps: pound foolish in Philly.
- Quotes.
- Riding roughshod: where not to drive.
- Buying low: the green real estate boom.
- Pakistani pork: military budget bungle.
- Screening the military.
- A Melissa, Texas, cop pulled Mark Robinson over for failing to use his turn signal.
- Anne Hartridge and Matt George take environmentalism seriously.
- Campaign burdens: rich man, poor incumbent.
- Marnina Norys was trying to board a plane at Canada's Kelowna Airport when security guards noticed her necklace, which had a 1.75-inch silver replica of a Colt .45 on it.
- More than 100 Northern Ireland pubs, about 7 percent of the total, have closed since the government banned smoking in them a little more than a year ago.
- Police in Rock Hill, South Carolina, arrested seven people at two different high school graduations for disorderly conduct.
- Police in Yorkshire, England, have ordered pubs to ban customers wearing hats from their premises.
- The good news is that the police arrived very quickly when Max Foster of Coleford, England, called to report that three youths were riding his moped late one night.
- When Victor Abrahams decided to sell his car, he did what a lot of people do: He stuck a "For Sale" sign in the window.
- Cory Maye: off death row, but still fighting for justice.
- Dems for vouchers: school choice surprise.
- Generation F.
- Three-parent families: genetics trump politics.
- Obama's wars: liberal interventionism makes a comeback.
- Man's best friend forever: cloning dogs for love and profit.
- Burn the "speculators"! Why are airlines sounding the alarm against one of their favorite activities?
- Who killed real ID? An unlikely coalition wins a post-9/11 victory for civil liberties.
- What part of legal immigration don't you understand?
- The one-man wall: how a single Arizona legislator's obsession has changed immigration policy for the worse.
- Get in line! Will Americans have to prove their right to work via an error-plagued database?
- The rational environmentalist: Bjorn Lomborg on the priorities that should come before global warming.
- Defaming Milton Friedman: Naomi Klein's disastrous yet popular polemic against the great free market economist.
- The cunning linguist: George Carlin's literary genius.
- Zoning toward oblivion: how the Supreme Court's decision in Euclid v. Ambler shaped modern America.
- Why opting out is no "third way": the perplexing banality of "libertarian paternalism".
- The Great Recycler: the late Bruce Conner made lasting art out of junk.
- When free love died: why the sexual revolution plays only in reruns.
- Uncle Satchmo?