Vol. 40 No. 8, January 2009
Index
- Obama's numbers: the president-elect has promised to make his math add up. Therein lies a glimmer of possibility.
- Burn the "Speculators"!(Letter to the editor)
- Who killed real ID?
- Zoning toward oblivion.
- What Part of Legal Immigration Don't You Understand?
- Obama's job fetish: why the government shouldn't view "creating jobs" as an end in itself.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Chicago rules: it's good to be the alderman.
- Digital spelunking: data mining failure.
- Baloney Ballistics: gun databases fail.
- Death by SWAT: collateral raid damage.
- Quotes.
- Soap scum: banning driveway carwashes.
- Anti-government superheroes.
- Halo Health: fit, happy gamers.
- Kentucky Reign: state-owned gambling domains.
- One fish, ten fish: fishery privatization.
- A security guard at Seagoville High School in Dallas, Texas, ordered a student to take off her rosary.
- Dave Alsop parked his car in a lot near Torquy Harbor in England at 2:49 p.m.
- Friendly invasion: end species discrimination!(Citings) (Brief article)
- In California's Dos Palos High School, an assistant principal forced Jake Shelly to take off his shirt and wear a T-shirt proclaiming him a dress code violator.
- Jack Anderson may be just 6, but he's been on the federal government's no-fly list for years.
- State law may prohibit some Texans who own beachfront property from rebuilding on it in the wake of Hurricane Ike.
- The poet Friedrich Schiller has been dead for more than 200 years.
- When Brazil's Environment Ministry set out to document the 100 biggest illegal loggers, it found the biggest offender was the government itself.
- When police in South Charleston, West Virginia, pulled over Jose Cruz for driving under the influence and driving with no headlights, he passed gas and waved his hand, directing the smell toward the officer.
- Blind rage: angry Korean masseuses.
- Death to Mickey: rated F for fatwa.
- Sarbanes-Oxley revisited.
- Economics actually.
- Beat the new boss: D.C. libertarians plot their Obama administration strategies.
- Thank you, your honor, may I have another? The stubbornly seductive perils of justice porn.
- Bush's regulatory kiss-off: Obama's assertions to the contrary, the 43rd president was the biggest regulator since Nixon.
- Anatomy of a breakdown: concerted government policy helped trigger the financial meltdown--and will almost certainly extend it.
- Better than a bailout: four steps policy makers could take to help financial markets.
- Is deregulation to blame? The new Washington consensus says "yes." The facts on the ground say something different.
- Houses of pain: when did declining home prices become politically intolerable?
- Lessons from the great inflation: Paul Volcker and Ronald Reagan's forgotten miracle created a quarter century of prosperity--and a dangerous bubble of complacency.
- The fed's binge: how the Federal Reserve engineered the most dramatic peacetime experiment in monetary and fiscal stimulus in U.S. history without anyone noticing.
- The real community organizer: Craig Newmark on Craigslist, libertarianism, online democracy, and nerd values.
- Slipped a Mickey? One man's light pollution is another man's historic landmark.
- The trouble with Thomas Jefferson: the eloquent founder's original sin.
- The God that flails: Bernard-Henri Levy takes on the rudderless European left.
- Pixar's stories: an animation company's inspirational rise from Nowheresville to infinity, and beyond.
- The end is near: why does the land of plenty love dystopias?
- Transparency in action.