Vol. 40 No. 9, February 2009
Index
- Schwarzenegger's failure: if the California governor is the face of "moderate" Republicanism, the party is even more doomed than the 2008 elections suggest.
- Divided in Nevada.
- Fear of a Unified Government.
- Idiocracy now!(Letter to the editor)
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Czar wars: intellectual property watchdog.
- Pot holders rejoice: drug decriminalization.
- A newer deal? Recession to depression.
- Checkpoint Diego: don't go near the border.
- How big is small? Federal contracting scam.
- I want a new drug: pharmaceutical spending.
- Quotes.
- Eyes on the U.K.: Britain's surveillance state.
- Product displacement: FCC vs. free broadcasting.
- The immediate future.
- An Amtrak train running from Los Angeles to San Diego ran out of fuel about 15 miles from the station.
- An auction for 56 foreclosed properties in Utah fell through when the owners rejected the bids.
- Deanna Gonzales says she was in the shower when she heard shots fired.
- E.R. crowding: are the uninsured to blame?
- In Chicago vote registration materials were sent to "Princess Nudelman.".
- Police officers in Massachusetts earn up to $40 an hour directing traffic at highway work sites.
- Someone posted a warning about a possible police sobriety checkpoint on a message board devoted to events in Rockland, Massachusetts.
- Tampa International Airport police learned from Canadian customs officials that Robert Christianson had some outstanding warrants, so as soon as he stepped off a plane they arrested him.
- The Federal Communications Commission is deciding who will get the channels it forced the satellite radio companies Sirius and XM to set aside for minority groups as a condition for approving their merger.
- Daylight spending: spring forward, fall back.
- Rain delay: $720 million stadium, 10-cent roof.
- The stakes get bigger.
- Let my students drink.
- The reversals of market wisdom: and vice versa.
- Where did it all go wrong? A thrilling and dispiriting year for libertarian politics.
- The successories president: the posterized secret of Obama's success?
- Bush's midnight regulations: the 43rd president may set yet another dubious record.
- The next catastrophe: think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were a politicized financial disaster? Just wait until pension funds implode.
- Bongs away! How the crusade against drug paraphernalia punishes controversial speech.
- You can put your weed in there: what to do after the last head shop closes.
- Who's your daddy? Children of sperm donors are seeking more information about their once-anonymous fathers, sometimes at the risk of the fertility industry itself.
- Shopping for fertility markets: when it comes to reproductive technology, Americans are more tolerant than the French.
- 'Chiefs, thieves, and priests': science writer Matt Ridley on the causes of poverty and prosperity.
- Alien world: how treacherous border crossing became a theme park.
- Frontier greens.
- Speak softly and carry a concealed handgun: would a nicer NRA be more effective?
- Bureaucracies at war.
- The Bonzo years.
- The amazing Ditko.
- Scion of Frankenstein: Michael Crichton, novelist and policy provocateur.
- In search of lost principle: the Republicans could benefit from rereading their two-page masterpiece.
- We, robots.