Weekly Archive 2012 August 15-21
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Hot, Fresh and Fighting
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Energy Regulators Think You're Crazy
A new study uncovers what regulators really think of American consumers.
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How Cannabis Can Revolutionize Our Economy: Author Doug Fine on "Too High To Fail"
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The Bipartisan Imperial Presidency
On core questions of federal power there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two tickets.
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Land Grabs in the Developing World
How powerful interests seize land from peasants, pastoralists, and others around the globe
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Move Over Todd Akin! 3 Other Monstrously Dumb Comments About Rape
Featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Bernard Shaw, and Clayton Williams.
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Anthony Randazzo Explains How Consumer Debt Is Holding Back the Economy on Fox Business
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Mitt Romney Versus the National Endowment for the Humanities
Romney's attack on the NEH shows an instinct for to go for the capillary rather than the jugular.
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The Wrong Side Absolutely Must Not Win
The past several weeks have made one thing crystal-clear: Our country faces unmitigated disaster if the Other Side wins.
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Illegal Immigrants, Not So Illegal
If foreign-born students have done everything to qualify for higher education, why shouldn't they be allowed to pursue it on the same terms as their peers?
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Rachel Maddow Abbreviates History
An MSNBC host's book on foreign policy leaves out too much of the story of how this mess began.
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Where Free-Market Economists Go Wrong
Subsidies, stimulus, regulations, protectionism, trade restrictions, government-bank collusion, zoning, bailouts and more do not equal a "free" market.
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What We Saw at the Lemonade & Raw Milk Freedom Day
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Where Are All the "Food Libertarians"?
An interview with Jayson Lusk, whose new report indicates most Americans want more food police
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You, Too, Can Purchase a Not-Quite Panopticon
We're almost certainly not yet living in the Panopticon. But any step in that direction—even if it's well-spun marketing-speak—is worth watching.
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A Conversation with Cato's David Boaz at Freedom Fest 2012
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Judge Napolitano on the 2012 Election, Obamacare, and The Future of Liberty
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Even in Bankruptcy, Unions Get Special Treatment
The pension-debt time bomb detonates in bankruptcy court.
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Want to Go to Drug Court? Say Goodbye to Your Rights
Why the bipartisan push for drug courts is overrated.
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Compliance
An unsettling new film explores the dark side of "just following orders."
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Friday Funnies
Ethanol
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4 Myths Both Parties Want to Maintain Through the Presidential Election
Obama and Romney try to create rhetorical differences where substantive ones may not exist.
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The Bogus Attack on Paul Ryan’s Medicare Plan
It’s time to retire the lame cliché about “ending Medicare as we know it.”
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What Democrats Mean When They Say 'Radical'
With words like "radical" and "extreme" being liberally flung around, it's probably time to define our terms.
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Remy: The Equality Song
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Paul Ryan and the Real Enemy of Medicare
It's easy to improve health care if cost is no object. It's easy to reduce costs if you can tolerate worse health outcomes.
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Romney and Ryan Would Return Us to the Bush Years
The Bush years were bad for freedom; without them, we would not have had an Obama administration.
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Katherine Mangu-Ward Talks Countrywide's VIP Treatment for Congressmen on CNBC's Closing Bell
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Germany, Not Greece, Should Leave the Eurozone
Why should Germany continue to pay for the fiscal mistakes of other countries?
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Misreading the Tea Party
A new book misunderstands the libertarian-leaning portion of the Tea Party movement and exaggerates the importance of the movement's social conservatives.
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There Ought Not to Be a Law
Most people see a world full of problems that can be solved by laws.
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The Caravan for Peace Calls for an End to the Drug War
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Defense Cuts Are Not the End of the World
It’s a little rich to hear conservative Republicans treat national security as if it were a federal jobs program
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Funeral Rights and Speech Rights
The new federal ban on funeral protests sacrifices liberty in an ostentatious display of patriotism.