Vol. 44 No. 9, February - February 2013
Index
- The 'truth' hurts: how the fact-checking press gives the president a pass.
- Corrections.
- Reaction.
- Your Vote Doesn't Count.
- Drug dealing and legal stealing: the feds try to take a family's motel because some of its guests broke the law.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Tax dat ass! Lap dance laws.
- Wars weighed down? Generals vs. snacks.
- Drone wars: police surveillance.
- Hospital bill bubble: costly Medicare reform.
- Misplaced marijuana: rescheduling petition.
- Quotes.
- Random drug budgets: school narcotic tests.
- Caffeine jitters: energy drink panic.
- Charter takeover: failing California schools.
- Freedom fries to anti-interventionism.
- Telemarketer tax: Florida licensure laws.
- Alex Kindopp says a teacher at Iowa's Shenandoah Elementary School had students spit on her 9-year-old son.
- Chinese officials have apologized to Feng Jianmei for forcing her to abort her child seven months into her pregnancy because she was violating the nation's "one child" policy.
- Crying fowl: USDA poultry rules.
- Darrel M. Forrest, a former member of the Kansas City, Kansas, police department's special weapons and tactics squad, has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison.
- Eight police officers responded to a Dorset, England, swimming pool after a man shouted at children who splashed him.
- Former Lakewood, Washington, police officer Skeeter Manos has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for stealing $112,000.
- Former Las Vegas police officer John Norman has pleaded guilty to oppression under the color of office and open or gross lewdness.
- Jessica Stirewalt, whose daughter Jesslyn attends a public school in Rowan County, North Carolina, got a call from the girl's assistant teacher to say she had cut Jesslyn's hair because the 7-year-old had gotten food in it.
- Michael Nash has sued the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for $10 million.
- The Cocoa, Florida, city council has voted to ban saggy pants and skirts.
- Buying blight: eminent domain abuse.
- Diet advice censorship: license to blog.
- Story of the Hurricane.
- Sex and violence.
- Viva higher incomes! More immigrants = growth.
- How YouTube saved TV: from farting babies to multiplatform sitcoms, the online video giant has it all.
- Get states off the federal dole: why are U.S. taxpayers footing the bill for surveillance cameras in Alaska?
- Ron Paul's last stand: a post-mortem on Dr. No's final presidential bid.
- The war on sex workers: an unholy alliance of feminists, cops, and conservatives hurts women in the name of defending their rights.
- The education visionary: Khan Academy founder Salman Khan on the future of learning.
- Can money buy happiness after all? New research suggests an old paradox might not be true.
- Show me your license, Daddy-O: how New York City tried to regulate bebop to death.
- What to do when you can do anything.
- Appendix of darkness.
- An undismal comic.
- The last leftist: the late Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, puts today's lefties to shame.
- Free games make money.
- Picturing the sublime.
- The neoliberal revolution: a new book gives Hayek, Friedman, and others too much credit--and too little.
- Loving Hating Breitbart: a powerful post-partisan message from a documentary about an infamous right-winger.
- Beware Obama's big ideas: The president and his fans say the best is yet to come. That can't be good.
- Secession fever.