Vol. 44 No. 8, January - January - January 2013
Index
- Dejection 2012: America ratifies an untenable status quo.
- Reaction.
- San Francisco's darkest hour.
- The end of international environmentalism.
- The rioter's veto: can violence in the Middle East justify censorship in the United States?
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Buckle up, rover: N.J. seat belt laws.
- FOIA? Forget it! White House transparency.
- Pot pass: jury nullification.
- Quotes.
- Shifting the load: pension bailouts.
- Watch the Drones: Pakistani terror.
- American dreaming: public opinion and prosperity.
- Indefinite detention.
- Internet deplorer: student speech rules.
- Taxpayers railroaded: slow train.
- Watching the watchers: traffic camera cameras.
- Corpus Christi, Texas, officials have ordered John Webb to stop washing the bird droppings off the sidewalk in front of his downtown restaurant.
- Just hours before the planned opening of Hop City Craft Beer and Wine in Birmingham, agents from the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board raided the store, seizing $7,000 of home brewing equipment and instructional books.
- License to cure: medical protectionism.
- Officials in Falun, Sweden, have ordered a local school to reduce its vegetable buffet by half and to start serving store-bought bread instead of freshly baked bread.
- Police in Victoria, Australia, stopped several automobiles and ordered the drivers to fill all the lanes on the road.
- Police officers forced students at Horizon High School in Texas to remove clothing so they could photograph any tattoos the kids were sporting.
- Tammy Cooper has sued the La Porte, Texas, police department and one of her neighbors after she was arrested for abandoning a child because she let her children, ages 6 and 9, ride their scooters in the cul-de-sac in front of their home.
- When her son did not get off the bus after his first day of kindergarten in Salem, Oregon, Windy Holm was terrified.
- Clintonostalgia.
- Illegal raid: file sharing prosecution.
- Pack attack: cigarette labels nixed.
- After death row.
- Urban renewal, corporate-style: Zappos.com founder tries to resurrect downtown Las Vegas.
- Sequestration is only the first step.
- Six degrees of military spending: nearly everyone knows someone who gets paid by the Pentagon. That's why it's so hard to cut.
- Apocalypse 2013: reasons to despair in the coming year.
- The fiscal cliff: a forum on America's impending budgetary doom and what to do about it.
- The worst of both worlds.
- How to make a bad recovery worse.
- Fear the regulatory cliff, too.
- Kick the can, again.
- A challenge and an opportunity.
- Your cellphone is spying on you: how the surveillance state co-opted personal technology.
- Putin goes to church: Russia's unholy new alliance between Orthodox and state.
- Detroit: city unintended consequences!(Cartoon)
- Half the facts you know are probably wrong: old truths decay and new ones are born at an astonishing rate.
- American Apocalypse: never-ending predictions that the world is about to end.
- Drug war, class war.
- Survivor: nuclear edition.
- The war over weed: if you know why marijuana was banned, you know why it should be legalized.
- The Mongols are coming!(Briefly Noted) (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle) (Brief article)
- Impeach Lincoln!(Briefly Noted) (The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln) (Brief article) (Book review)
- Unsafe security: a sociologist aptly analyzes our failures in top-down protection.
- Grade-school humor.
- Atlas Shrugged Part II: Election Edition: Rand's timeless novel is recast as a Tea Party fable.
- When cities go bankrupt: municipal failure is bad for creditors and unions, but potentially good for taxpayers.
- Mayan Apocalypse or Y2K?