Vol. 43 No. 11, April 2012
Index
- The symbolic presidency: Obama says he can get you a job. So why can't he produce a federal budget?
- Medicare Whac-A-Mole.
- Restraining orders.
- Shoot first.
- Who's More Anti-Science: Republicans or Democrats?
- The freakin' FCC: the increasingly incomprehensible ban on broadcast indecency.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- More pot, fewer crashes: weed makes roads safer?
- Sext panic: mobile hook-ups hype.
- Audit the feds! Bad government bookkeeping.
- Drone home: flyover country.
- Godless liars? Atheist for president.
- Quotes.
- Dialing for dollars: phone tax follies.
- Flight delay: regulators grounded.
- Model behavior.
- NRACLU? Fourth Amendment, meet Second.
- Australia's Advertising Standards Bureau has ruled that the red M&M isn't a bully.
- Folk singer Vance Gilbert says the Transportation Security Administration and Massachusetts State Police pulled him off a flight from Boston to Washington to question him about his reading habits.
- Gag order: pepper spray abuse.
- Janet Goodin was traveling from her home in Minnesota to Manitoba to visit her daughters when she was stopped at the border by the Canada Border Services Agency.
- Kansas officials admit it might not be a good idea to fund residential programs that house teenagers in foster care alongside convicted sex offenders and other criminals.
- Montreal schools have ordered teachers to monitor students' conversations during meals and at recess and other breaks from class to make sure they are speaking French.
- More than 1,480 people have been wrongly incarcerated in Los Angeles County jails during the last five years.
- Red tape rising: Obama regulation boom.
- The city of Daytona Beach has paid $200,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by four women who were strip-searched by police during a raid on a strip club.
- The Plantation, Florida, police department suspended Officer Joseph Sposa for repeatedly texting an alleged domestic abuse victim to ask her out and tell her that her toenail polish was "quite a turn on.".
- Beer, uncensored: free speech victory.
- Turn on, tune in.
- Sex and shopping.
- Better off dead: the cheap, exciting afterlife of modern mortal remains.
- Women vs. the state: it's time to liberate ladies from unequal and unjust government policies.
- The Ron Paul moment: scenes from a shockingly successful presidential campaign.
- How stimulus fails: a case study of federal waste in Silver Spring, Maryland.
- Sextuple jeopardy: the Groundhog Day of capital murder trials.
- Conservatives against consumption: are fossil fuels responsible for moral and social decay?
- God Is Not. Great! Magician and TV performer Penn Jillette on atheism, terrorism, cynicism, libertarianism, and why he'd give a random stranger the keys to a Ferrari.
- Zombiepocalypse now.
- Pro-park avenue pamphleteer.
- Christopher Hitchens, romantic: the late author picked his battles well to the end.
- Get lucky.
- Texas wit.
- Political intelligence.
- The great TARP cover-up: some folks want to pretend government intervention never happened.
- ObamaCare, the comic book: the case for the dis just as annoying in cartoon form.
- California kills redevelopment: Gov. Jerry Brown's winning campaign against blight hustlers.
- Socialist cybernetics.