Vol. 41 No. 4, August 2009
Index
- California screaming: the Golden State's political class comes unglued in the face of a citizens' revolt.
- Correction.
- Hating Milton Friedman.
- When do deficits matter?
- reason news.
- Hawk in hock: Obama pretends to be frugal as we sink deeper in debt.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Runaway runway: vanity stimulus.
- Step away from the car: Rare Fourth Amendment victory.
- Cigarette gag: smokes and speech.
- Quotes.
- Unaccountable Obama: so much for transparency.
- Weed control: feds make bad dealers.
- Horse thieves: seizing the Preakness.
- Judge Dred.
- Just compensation? Testing the Takings Clause.
- So long, surplus: Social Security unstimulated.
- A teacher at Wiley Elementary School in Richland, Washington, asked students to assemble autobiographies.
- In Indiana more than 11,000 crime victims were incorrectly notified that the criminals who victimized them were being released from prison.
- In Italy more than 100 people are being investigated for allegedly rigging traffic signals at intersections with stoplight cameras to increase the number of fines.
- It seemed like a routine traffic stop until a Brisbane, Australia, police officer ordered Chad Hastings out of his car.
- Nativist international: Bribing immigrants to leave.
- Parking pass: privatization gone wrong.
- St. Cecilia's Catholic Church in Rochester, Pennsylvania, has sold homemade pies as part of its fish-fry fundraisers for as long as anyone can remember.
- Stuart Kennedy of Aberdeen, Scotland, has been charged with impersonating a police officer 22 times--and cleared of the charges in court 22 times.
- The city of New Orleans sent Mary Kieff 226 parking tickets in two years, with fines totaling nearly $20,000.
- The New York City Housing Authority has banned Boston terriers from housing projects.
- Love for hate crime laws.
- Taxing the net: sales tax cartel.
- DIY park repairs: community organizing.
- The failure of African aid.
- Survival television: learning to love the vast wasteland to come.
- Destroying jobs in order to save them: Obama's corporate tax "reforms" make a bad situation worse.
- Illegal. Illiberal. Ill-fated: why Washington shouldn't run Detroit.
- The drug czar's high math: how phony statistics about cocaine prices hide the truth about the war on drugs.
- Miami Vice: the rise of Florida's cocaine economy.
- The case for doing nothing: the only plausible argument for bailing out banks crumbles on close examination.
- Tweeting under fire: disaster researcher Jeannette Sutton explores how ordinary people create their own media during crises.
- Super porn.
- Future biotech farmers of America.
- Bumbling big brother: what Americans can learn from the British experience with government surveillance.
- A country singer can evolve.
- Disturbing the peace: on the inalienable right to "excessively noisy sex".
- The shifting frontiers of animal rights: activists yawn as animals lurch toward a hybrid future.
- Freedom blasters: a Chicago alderman takes on property rights and free speech.