Vol. 46 No. 10, March - March 2015
Index
- When every life is precious: we value individual human lives more every day. That's (mostly) good news.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Death by cop: stop or they'll shoot.
- Targeting brutality: there's an app for that.
- Tour guide tax: free speech isn't free.
- Brown v. teachers: NY tenure lawsuit.
- IRS emails discovered: backups found.
- Quotes.
- The unfriendly skies: blocking competition.
- 3 ways Social Security and Medicare screw young people.
- Charity challenged: arrests halted.
- Drones downed? FAA regulations.
- Fed regs fail: ratings quality deteriorates.
- A Saratoga County, New York, sheriff's deputy has been suspended without pay after video showed him apparently slapping a man and taking away his car keys after the man refused to let the officer search his vehicle.
- Ed reforms needed: 'A' for almost no effort.
- New York City's Commission on Human Rights has fined the Sistina restaurant $5,000 for placing an ad on Craigslist for a hostess.
- Police in Columbus, Ohio, say they are going to review procedures after a day of training that saw three patrol cars wrecked and tear gas carried by the wind to a nearby elementary school.
- Saudi Arabia has banned women from displaying "tempting eyes.".
- Six people, including police Lt. Gregory Totz, were taken to the hospital after a chain reaction vehicle crash in St. Petersburg, Florida.
- The British Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services, and Skills denied Middle Rasen Primary School its highest score because the student population was too English.
- The Washington state health care exchange accidentally canceled coverage for some 6,000 accounts.
- Vietnamese police have detained Hong Le Tho for posting 'bad content' on his blog.
- Washington state's Lynden Pioneer Museum nearly had to remove all firearms from a World War II exhibit to comply with a new state law.
- Aereo goes dark: startup pulls the plug.
- Forfeiture reform: stopping police seizures.
- Still not getting along.
- How to fix our schools.
- No play for you: playground razed.
- Torture as an absolute wrong: if waterboarding works, does that make it morally acceptable?
- Screwed by seniors: the people expected to pay for Social Security and Medicare can't afford it.
- How low can oil prices go? The tricky geopolitics of tumbling demand and rising supply.
- Eternal youth for all! Why I want to live forever and you should too.
- Reverse Robin hoods: public worker pensions rob the young and poor to pay the old and rich.
- Confessions of a Stockton Slumlord.
- Public vs. private pensions.
- Are we becoming morally smarter? The connection between increasing IQs, decreasing violence, and economic liberalism.
- Checking Putin: Garry Kasparov on chess, communism, and Russia's 'one-man dictatorship'.
- Killer or artist? Prosecutors' use of rap lyrics as evidence is chilling artistic speech.
- Dying and in denial: a new book offers a powerful dissection of contemporary end-of-life care, yet misses the underlying problem.
- Gluttony, guilt, and globalism.
- Everyone a war correspondent.
- National security state: the strange powerlessness of the "most powerful man in the world".
- Wonder Woman's origin.
- Freeform radio: the movie.
- Free the mages!(Briefly Noted) (Dragon Age: Inquisition) (Brief article) (Product/service evaluation)
- Private money in virtual worlds: will wildcat currencies shrink the state?
- Cruel, unusual, and crowded: Will Brown v. Plata bring mass incarceration to an end?
- Do Androids dream of changing bedpans? Robots to the rescue for Japan's aging population.
- The quantified citizen: engineering happiness might sound good, but it will leave us all less free.
- Texas truck of terror.