Vol. 43 No. 5, October 2011
Index
- What the left can learn from the tea party: independence, not loyalty, is the way to push Democratic politicians on drug policy, civil liberties, and war.
- Correction.
- Radley Balko's reason feature "The Case of Cory Maye" (October 2006) chronicled a tragic Mississippi shooting and its aftermath.
- Shine on, you crazy diamond.
- War counsel: Obama shops for Libya advice that lets him ignore the law.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Busting Bitcoin: senators target virtual currency.
- Lady drivers: Saudi women take the wheel.
- Match breaker: 'Clean Elections' overturned.
- Policing profits: forfeiture reform.
- Quotes.
- Unfree press: bureaucrat-activist collusion.
- Insiders, trading: congressional stock performance.
- Show biz politics.
- Stimulosis: recovery act failure.
- Surgically enhanced: stem cells and baseball.
- A Broward County, Florida, sheriff's deputy thought the sage that Robin Brown had with her was marijuana, and a field test seemed to confirm that.
- A court in Taiwan has sentenced a blogger to 30 days in jail and two years' probation for writing a negative restaurant review.
- A federal jury awarded Tricia Wachsmuth $30,001 after police officers in Powell, Wyoming.
- Emil Linnell called Sweden's emergency dispatch service several times complaining that he could not breathe and asking for an ambulance.
- Health officials in Maryland have warned summer camp operators to get parents' permission before letting campers use sunscreen.
- Officials in Glasgow, Scotland, sent a letter to parents of students at King's Park Secondary School warning them not to allow their children to wear short skirts or tight pants.
- Officials with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina admit they made a few mistakes.
- San Francisco's Animal Control and Welfare Commission.
- Slaughter horse horror: animal wrongs.
- The French government has banned TV broadcasters from mentioning Facebook or Twitter unless it is part of a story.
- When teachers at England's Nathaniel Newton Infant School spotted two 7-year-old boys playing army.
- A history of violence.
- Scrapbook abuse: extracurricular drug testing.
- Third base foul line: child porn panic.
- Blinding red lights.
- Pimp your ride: why own what you can rent? And why not rent out what you own?
- Taxation without representation: tax-hungry states go after out-of-state retailers.
- Bummer: Barack Obama turns out to be just another drug warrior.
- Medicare thieves: stealing from the government-run health care system is much easier--and potentially more lucrative--than dealing drugs.
- 'We were headed towards this fiscal cliff long before Barack Obama took the wheel': Rep. Jeff Flake talks about Republican corruption, federal spending, the PATRIOT Act, immigration, and the virtues of divided government.
- Does disease cause autocracy? New studies say reducing infection rates promotes liberalization.
- Empire of the son: the president's parents were supporters, not opponents, of American hegemony.
- Parental profanity.
- Blackwater: the novel.
- Diagnosing in the dark: the continuing relevance of Thomas Szasz's assault on psychiatric pretensions.
- The creation of 'Closure'.
- Whodunit? Who knows?
- Alien nation.
- Lochner isn't a dirty word: correcting the cartoonish vilification of a libertarian Supreme Court decision.
- The great basketball swindle: a riveting new documentary takes on New York's shameful eminent domain abuse.
- Zoning bigots: a Los Angeles County land use war shows the dark history and darker future of urban planning.
- The butter battle.