Vol. 41 No. 7, December 2009
Index
- Are tea parties racist? Sifting through the anti-Obama-hysteria hysteria.
- Correction.
- The case for doing nothing.
- The shifting frontiers of animal rights.
- The consumer is not the customer: both parties promise to preserve one of the central problems of the health care system.
- 35 years ago in reason.
- Plastic politics: toy safety follies.
- State crafts: art for politics' sake.
- No joint custody: Argentine drug laws.
- Quotes.
- Stop and frisk: NYC civil liberties.
- Discount genomes: personalized medicine.
- Innocent man walking.
- Jericho bile: police gone wild.
- Self insured: health care accounting.
- In Tarpon Springs, Florida, police officer Jeffrey Robinson resigned after admitting he slashed the tires of a bicycle owned by a homeless man.
- In Tinley Park, Illinois, Mayor Ed Zabrocki says police have been overzealous in ticketing cars that don't have municipal stickers.
- Inspectors working for the Stoke City Council in England have warned residents to remove welcome mats and potted plants from their porches.
- Mark Wattson collapsed in agony and had to be rushed by ambulance to a hospital in Swindon, England, where doctors told him his appendix had burst and needed to be taken out.
- Massachusetts drivers challenged more than 250,000 traffic tickets last year.
- More than 150 people marched outside Indiana's Richmond High School after school officials suspended hundreds of students for violating a new dress code.
- Police in Guangzhou, China, now demand fingerprints, a DNA sample, and a handwriting sample from anyone wishing to work in a bar.
- Steal this law! Judicial transparency.
- The Department of Veterans Affairs mistakenly told some 1,200 veterans they had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, according to the National Gulf War Resource Center.
- The Georgia Department of Natural Resources seized 500 turtles from Steve Santhuff, alleging his possession of them was illegal.
- Consumers reported: snitching to Uncle Sam.
- The gay gap: support for same-sex marriage.
- The long wait for FDA-approved cancer sticks.
- Creating your own economy.
- Put a cork in it: wining children?
- Glenn Beck's experimental melodrama: the Fox News star terrifies America with his realistic news theater.
- Where's that inflation? The monetary base has ballooned, yet inflation remains far off. Or does it?
- Bernanke's philosopher: the Fed chairman is portrayed as a follower of John Maynard Keynes, but his real inspiration is Milton Friedman.
- Is government action worse than global warming? Why policy nihilism may be the only rational response to climate change.
- Globalization with a human face: Jagdish Bhagwati on the trouble with protectionism, how to deal with climate change, and why NAFTA was bad for free trade.
- How to get ahead in law: Bernard Baran served 22 years on dubious child molestation charges, but the prosecutor who convicted him was promoted to judge.
- The Salvia ban wagon: how does terrible drug policy get made? The mad rush to criminalize a psychedelic herb provides a textbook case.
- She's back: Ayn Rand is bigger than ever. But are her new fans radical enough for capitalism?
- Orgies for the masses.
- A tattooed nation.
- The ungay games.
- Private eye, private enterprise.
- Will everyone please stop freaking out over Ayn Rand?!?
- Cash for creativity.
- Ready for her close-up: re-examining Ayn Rand's place in American intellectual and cultural life.
- Reading people's faces: tattoos, dueling scars, and other rational acquisitions.
- Unacknowledged legislators impeached: why isn't the United States doing more for its poets laureate?
- Miniature monsters attack America.