Vol. 43 No. 8, January 2012
Index
- Manufacturing consensus: building a bipartisan truth one questionable 'fact' at a time.
- Medicare thieves.
- The Great Basketball Swindle.
- Executive kill switch: should the president have the power to kill anyone he considers an enemy?
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Legalized liquor: better booze in California.
- Shoot first: ask questions later.
- Avenging vendors: always be licensing.
- Jails not prisons: inmates stay local.
- Lying about spying: secret surveillance law.
- Quotes.
- ACLU vs. FISA: unconstitutional eavesdropping.
- Free to move: beyond the border.
- Happy 150th Birthday!(List) ('100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, from Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith') (Brief article)
- Internet economics: needless net neutrality.
- Religious test: church, state, and corruption.
- CLASS dismissed: ObamaCare cutback.
- Denmark has banned Marmite, Rice Krispies, and Ovaltine, among other popular foods.
- For the last four years, hundreds of people have come by Rick Newman's Boca Raton home to see the Halloween display in his front yard, which has included robotic monsters and fountains that look like they are filled with blood.
- For the last four years, Wesley Wood has supplemented his Social Security income by selling vegetables he grows from the front yard of his Parma, Ohio, home.
- New York officials freed Oswind Davis from prison after discovering he had been convicted on charges that a judge dismissed before he went to trial, a fact that escaped Davis, his attorneys, prosecutors, and the judge who handled the trial.
- Officials in Pennsylvania's Richland School District have canceled plans to perform the Tony Award-winning musical Kismet after some community members complained that it featured Muslim characters.
- Scottsdale, Arizona, resident Raed Tarazi faces up to six months in jail and a $2,500-a-day fine if he doesn't cut down a tree in his backyard.
- The FBI is refusing to pay for a $750,000 Ferrari wrecked by one of its agents, who was supposed to be moving it.
- Unlike some people, Derrick C. Smith was probably quite happy to get a summons for jury duty in a murder trial in Schenectady, New York.
- Eminent domain goes bust.
- Montebello meltdown: redevelopment corruption.
- Stop and trick: trumped-up pot busts.
- Green on the outside, red on the inside.
- The quantified self: what will life be like when every aspect of your existence is as easy to access as the latest Lady Gaga single?
- The never-ending budget battle: writing rules to stop congress from spending is hopeless.
- Restraining orders: the government's unconstitutional restrictions on our freedom to travel.
- The moral foundations of occupy Wall Street: an illustrated guide to the signs at Zuccotti Park.
- Medicare whac-a-mole: why health care price controls always fail.
- Who's More Anti-Science: Republicans or Democrats? Comparing the applied ignorance of our two major political parties.
- Ken Burns on Prohibition, Pot, and PBS: Q&A with America's top documentarian.
- Holy terrible.
- Spinoza's abominations.
- Weedcrawler.
- King and country.
- Modern-day prohibition: the eternal temptation to ban things that give people pleasure.
- Transtromer, more than meets the eye.
- Controlling guns, controlling people: a new history shows how gun control goes hand in hand with fear of black people--and the people.
- Terror TV: homeland shows the messier side of the security bureaucracy.
- I, panel: Solyndra's story, with apologies to Leonard E. Read.
- Tear down this fence.