Vol. 40 No. 6, November 2008
Index
- Scared straight: notes from our nation's awful political spectacles.
- Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?
- Follow state law, go directly to jail: medical marijuana makes conservatives forget federalism.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Congress of angels: 'near-perfect' ethics record.
- Talk of the town: free speech in Philly.
- Back to court: Heller v. D.C. II.
- Bourgeois boom: expanding middle class.
- Quotes.
- Advil strip search: fourth amendment victory.
- Ask a Mexican.
- Card sharks: gift certificate rights?
- Clyde Scott was in his barbershop cutting hair when a police officer walked in and gave him a ticket--for cutting hair.
- Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Frank Melton has been indicted on federal civil rights charges.
- Lenny Woodward is 96 and nearly blind, so you'd think people might understand when he accidentally put two glass jars in the wrong recycling bin.
- Massena, New York, code enforcement officer Gregory Fregoe says inflatable pools are a menace, and he has cited at least 20 people so far this year for having them.
- Moralistic medicine: fundamentalist pharmacists.
- Steve Kink heard an alarm go off outside his wife's bar in Weymouth, England.
- Toi Pruitt, her three children, and her boyfriend, Joe Pulliam, planned to move into a house Pruitt and Pulliam bought in Black Jack, Missouri.
- Tom Kleven thought he'd prepare for a triathlon by swimming across Minnesota's Lake Nokomis.
- Mississippi fires medical examiner Steven Hayne.
- Publius blogs: protecting online anonymity.
- Digital drinks: Beer Pong controversy.
- The dangerous failure of McCain-Feingold.
- Divided in Nevada: in America's most libertarian state, libertarians don't know how they'll vote.
- Garden gnome politics: the age-old battle over landscape expression.
- Fear of a united government: what happens to federal spending when the Democrats control both Congress and the presidency?
- Bob Barr talks: the best-known nominee in Libertarian Party history talks to reason about war, drugs, pornography, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ayn Rand.
- Beyond the fairness doctrine: Barack Obama says he wouldn't reintroduce the Federal Communications Commission's most notorious speech-squashing regulation. But there are more mundane reasons to fear the next FCC.
- Is there any hope for this man? Assessments of Barack Obama from planet reason.
- A transformation on race: Barack Obama's "post-racial" posture reflects a quiet but radical shift in liberal ideas about race in America.
- 30 years of Dallas: the TV show that won the Cold War.
- The Republican civil war: can the GOP make a comeback by embracing the welfare state?
- Between Iraq and a soft place: Democrats counter with a kinder, gentler interventionism.
- Idiocracy now! Hollywood makes a dumb movie about dumb voters.
- Every man a derrida: a nation on the verge of self-deconstructing.
- Emo rescue.