Vol. 42 No. 9, February 2011
Index
- The view from the sidelines: the pros and cons of political self-marginalization.
- How to slash the state.
- The small business myth.
- Can't buy you love: the essential yet limited role of money in politics.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Hands off: Airport checkpoint revolt.
- Loss aversion: putting TARP to the test.
- Drug scale: shrooms beat booze.
- Freedom photo finish: snapshots of government.
- Paramilitary creep: the D.A.'s little army.
- Quotes.
- Get to work.
- McHealth care: have it their way?
- Suicide solution? Occupation begets terror.
- They're grrrreat! Regulating pet tigers.
- A Spalding County, Georgia, firefighter used his cell phone to record video of a young woman who was killed in a car crash.
- Andrew Buck, principal of Brooklyn's Middle School for Art and Philosophy, sent an email message to teachers who had complained about a lack of textbooks.
- CVS, meth dealer: mandatory 'overcompliance'.
- In England, the Walsall Council has warned residents not to put leaves they sweep up in front of their homes into their "green waste" recycling bins.
- Kami Charais says her 4- and 6-year-old children will keep selling pumpkins from their roadside stand, despite being ordered to stop by an Idaho State Tax Commission agent.
- New York City police officer Louis Ramos has been charged with assault, reckless driving, and leaving the scene of an accident.
- Officials at Cardinal High School in Middlefield, Ohio, suspended cheerleader Bree Vargo for two games after they found a Facebook photograph of her holding a beer bottle at a family wedding.
- Public schools in Massachusetts are sending home "fat letters" telling parents their children are overweight or obese.
- School officials in Jamesburg, New Jersey, suspended 11-year-old Owen Halpin after they caught him with a dangerous weapon: a cigarette lighter he found on school grounds.
- Yasir Afifi, an American-born student at California's Mission College, found an electronic device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online.
- eHarmony legalized: sleazy no more!(Citings) (Brief article)
- More happy families.
- The horror: obscenity in Canada.
- Legal noodles: food safety rules.
- Young Adam Smith.
- Grade inflation: the more we spend on higher education, the more we spend on higher education.
- Can we trust the GOP? The Republicans have retaken the House, but that doesn't mean you should expect the government to get any smaller.
- Grading Barack Obama: Libertarian legal scholar Richard Epstein on his former University of Chicago colleague.
- Just a matter of when? Legalizing marijuana has failed in California. But eve in defeat, Proposition 19 might mark the beginning of the end for prohibition.
- Labor's last stand? A new accounting rule will either sink private-sector unions or trigger the next major bailout.
- The science of libertarian morality: a social psychology study explores the formation of the libertarian personality.
- Why cops aren't whistleblowers: the shameful stop snitchin' campaign among the men in blue.
- Radio theater: some prominent Republicans say they want to defund National Public Radio. We've heard that line before.
- The secret lives of bees.
- Bionics in the home.
- Moose and squirrel never die.
- When booze was banned but pot was not: what can today's antiprohibitionists learn from their predecessors?
- Virtually political.
- The terminator vs. the constitution: California's video game law does violence to the First Amendment.
- What's the matter with provincetown? The Democrats' two years of control delivered zero social liberalism.
- Wet at last.