Vol. 42 No. 6, November 2010
Index
- Scary monsters: the growth of government threatens freedom much more than mosque-building Muslims do.
- Conservatives v. libertarians.
- Ideas Having Sex.
- Unfaithful friend of liberty.
- Strange love: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the equal protection argument for gay marriage.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Block that judgement: stopping libel tourism.
- Raw food raids: uncowed by the law.
- Auditing the IRS: bad bookkeeping.
- Legal jailbreaks: iPhone liberation.
- Missing in action: defense dollars AWOL.
- Paid in full: California budget fight.
- Quotes.
- A.G. anonymous: secret subpoenas.
- Aliens vs. Obama: immigration crackdown.
- Don't drink and ride: taxi monopoly.
- A recent state audit found Michigan may have made some $2 million in Medicaid payments during the last two years.
- Also in Florida, Briana Vega had big plans for a birthday party for her friend Courtney Rogers.
- Ecstatic breakthrough: MDMA research.
- Fifteen years ago, someone stole Dan Wheeler's wallet.
- In Bridgewater, England, a cop accidentally tased Peter Cox in the groin after stopping him based on suspicion of driving without insurance.
- Officials in Clearwater Beach, Florida, are renovating and expanding their two-story lifeguard headquarters.
- Police in Nagpur, India, say they have come up with a way to stop traffic accidents.
- Shirley Anderson abandoned her son Ken when he was 15.
- The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has banned taste contests for homebrewed beer, homebrew club tasting nights, and even taking your homebrewed beer to a friend's home to drink.
- Yuri Samordurov and Andrei Yerofeyev are the curators of Moscow's Andrei Sakharov Museum, where they hosted an exhibit that included a painting of Jesus with Mickey Mouse's head.
- Deficit politics forever.
- Film futures forbidden: movie speculation ban.
- Organ tax credits: markets in guts.
- Perils of pot prohibition.
- Girls' night out: unhappy hours.
- The unschooled life.
- The return of debtor's prison: collection agencies use the criminal justice system to pocket credit card debts.
- The small business myth: when the government tries to help small businesses, it hurts businesses (and taxpayers) of all sizes.
- They're coming to get you: a fiscal horror story so terrifying, it can only be told in 3D!(Cover story)
- How to slash the state: 14 ways to dismantle a monstrous government, one program at a time.
- Nightmare on every street: how to carve Fannie and Freddie into pieces.
- It can happen here: government really can be cut: case studies from Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.
- The real culture war: American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks talks about the 70 percent of Americans who support free enterprise and why they're underrepresented in Washington.
- Invasion of the invasive species! Local biodiversity is increasing because of man, not despite him.
- The government's license to steal: Indiana's law barring police departments from enriching themselves through asset forfeiture would be more effective if it weren't ignored.
- I.M.P., part 3: everybody is stupid except for her!(Culture and Reviews) (Cartoon)
- Dressed in 3D.
- Forced to be free: what anti-TV crusades, the campaign against the "Ground Zero mosque," and Ayn Rand's "intellectual heir" have in common with the reform movements of the antebellum era.
- Family guy remainders.
- Mainstreaming marijuana.
- Publishing is dead, long live books.
- The original mad man: advertising genius Albert Lasker transformed America.
- Hayek, Mises ... and Foucault?
- Corpses, crimes, and comic books: Old Testament justice in the horror comics of the '50s.
- The last action hero: after seven years that felt like a thousand, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger bequeaths a slightly larger government to a sickly state.
- Nuclear deterrent.