Vol. 44 No. 7, December 2012
Index
- America's free speech retreat: the Obama administration's shoddy response to the consulate attack in Libya.
- Frederick Douglass, classical liberal.
- Reaction.
- The man vs. the therapeutic state: a remembrance of Thomas Szasz, courageous defender of freedom and responsibility.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Hot dog standoff.
- Paying doctor.
- Agent provocateur.
- Poker is no crime.
- Poor policy.
- Quotes.
- Drone rule.
- Gun rights on the left.
- Pedal power.
- A Virginia judge sentenced Susan Mortensen to 50 hours of community service for vandalism.
- An Oregon court sentenced Gary Harrington to 30 days in jail and fined him $1,500 for building three ponds on his property to trap rainwater.
- Colorado Springs police say they will investigate why officers wrongly arrested James Sorensen for carrying a firearm in a city park.
- Labor pains.
- Maricopa County, Arizona, officials claimed Briseria Torres was an illegal alien and charged her with three counts of forgery for falsely obtaining a driver's license.
- Martial arts expert Tim Larkin trains military and law enforcement officials, including U.S. Navy SEALS, in self-defense.
- Moving violation.
- North Haven, Connecticut, zoning officials sent the Lidsky family a cease-and-desist order for keeping "livestock" on a property smaller than two acres.
- Officials at Oklahoma's Prague High School have refused to give a diploma to Kaitlin Nootbaar, the valedictorian of the 2012 graduating class.
- When Mitch Torbett applied for a construction permit in Tennessee, local officials ran his driver's license number and found an outstanding federal arrest warrant.
- Obama deadenders.
- Stop drop.
- Border wealth.
- Pot economics.
- Big Brother's border blindness: after 15 years and hundreds of billions of dollars, the virtual border fence is still just a mirage.
- Military keynesians: when it comes to defense, Republicans think government spending boosts the economy.
- Can the Libertarian Party get 1 percent of the vote? L.P. nominee Gary Johnson fights to reach single digits.
- Obama: transparently disappointing: the president has fallen far short of promises to establish "an unprecedented level of openness in government.".
- 'The world is more complicated': David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on New Orleans, private prisons, drug policy, newspapers, and letting down libertarians.
- Blue science and red science: examining the Democratic and Republican platforms on stem cells, space, and more.
- How to have a good idea: a unified theory of fantasy football; eat, pray, love; and burning man.
- The Demise of Guys: why boys are struggling and what we can do about it.
- The politics of dating.
- Milgram: the movie.
- Deadly colonialist fables: what dueling origin myths from the 19th century tell us about ourselves.
- Weeds goes legit.
- The silver age.
- Reregulation fantasy: another critic of airline deregulation misses the mark.
- Superhero subsidies: politicians eager to see their cities destroyed offer giveaways to filmmakers.
- Unions vs. democratic mayors: the longstanding love affair between democrats and organized labor is on the rocks.
- Drones invade New York City!(Artifact) (posters that blanketed Manhattan) (Brief article)