Weekly Archive 2013 January 22-28
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Homeless Permits
You can’t sleep here
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DeadSocial
D.C. tech tax breaks
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Taxpayer Forfeiture
Asset seizure costs
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Rich Biz Gives More
Corporate social responsibility
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Bets Are Off
CFTC vs. Intrade
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Killer Robots
Autonomous death machines
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FHA Goes Bust
Housing woes
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Deadbeat Grads
Soaring default rates
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Trains in Vain
Amtrak boondoggle
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Email Armor
Electronic privacy reform
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Part-Time Push
ObamaCare and employers
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Ding Dongs Ditched
Hostess bakery bankruptcy
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Letters and Reaction
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Contributors
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Are Republican and Democratic Brains Different?
A new study concludes that everyone uses reason to persuade, not to find truth.
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Quotes
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Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Advocates Conscious Capitalism
In his new book, the co-founder of Whole Foods Market promotes free-market thinking while criticizing Wall Street.
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Jonas Brothers Headline National School Choice Week 2013
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Drug Dealing and Legal Stealing
The feds try to take a family’s motel because some of its guests broke the law.
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It’s Time to Get Judgy About Incompetency
Language should foster communication. Unfortunately, it often is used to prevent communication by obscuring truth.
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GOP Restrictionists Are Big Labor's Dupes on Immigration
Anti-immigration Republicans are advancing organized labor's agenda.
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Is China Becoming Less Authoritarian?
Thanks to capitalism, the sphere of personal autonomy in China is now vastly larger than it was in the dark days of Mao Zedong.
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Senator Harkin to Wage Pricey War on Fat
Even if you’re thin, you’ll pay for Tom Harkin’s fat fatwa.
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States vs. ObamaCare
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Brickbats
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30 years ago in reason
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Lewis Lapham on Legalizing Drugs, Hating the Facebook, and Curating the Past at Lapham's Quarterly
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‘I Escaped a North Korean Prison Camp’
An interview about life inside the Hermit Kingdom’s gulag
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World War II Spending Did Not End the Great Depression
The aggregate statistics fail to capture essential details of life.
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National School Choice Week 2013 Kicks Off in Los Angeles
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How Free-Market Thought Succeeded By Getting More Radical
A brilliant history shows libertarianism, even when uncredited, changing the world.
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Two Cheers for the Coming Collapse of the U.S. Economy!
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel on Ending the Fed, Privatizing Money, and Why the Welfare State Will Fall
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Chicago City Councilman Wants to Ban Energy Drinks
Powerful Chicago Alderman Edward Burke has pushed for the city to ban trans fats, foie gras, and Four Loko. His latest target? Red Bull.
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Libya, Mali, and the Reality of Unintended Consequences
At least 39 foreign hostages were killed by terrorists in Algeria, and the reason why shouldn't be a mystery.
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Secession Fever
If the U.S. were to escape any adjustments to its borders, it would be a rare case.
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Andrew Campanella on National School Choice Week 2013
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How Big Government Undermines Freedom and Prosperity
The dangers of viewing government as the be-all-and-end-all of our society.
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Jeremy Renner on crone patrol.
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Rational Man
The skeptic who scandalized Victorian America.
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Loving Hating Breitbart
A powerful post-partisan message from a documentary about an infamous right-winger
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Will Obama Shun 'Perpetual War'?
Peace is not really peace—it's just a term we use for that brief interval between invasions.
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Guns and the President
Who has killed more children, Lanza or Obama?
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How Graffiti Empowers Big Government
While advocates present graffiti as a liberating force, graffiti has also given local governments a pretext to expand their coercive powers.
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Shopping Around for a Better Life
It’s good that we have places like Texas and New Hampshire to which fed-up citizens can escape.
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Matt Welch Discusses the GOP's Latest Budget Strategy on The Kudlow Report
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Look Who’s Mocking Fascist Fear-Mongering Now
Is it really so outrageous to believe the government of the United States is capable of tyranny?
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Fitness Crackdown: Santa Monica Gets Tough On Trainers
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Do We Want Better Enforcement of Misguided Gun Restrictions?
"Universal background checks" could unjustly deny millions of people the right to armed self-defense.
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Obama Promises a Big Push on Climate Change
The president appears determined to confront climate change, with or without the help of Congress.
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India's Selective Outrage: The Tale of Two Rapes
Indians need to hold politicos who sponsor sexual violence accountable
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Nick Gillespie Discusses Gun Control and Violence on the Tom Sullivan Show
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"Blowhards Chronicling Blowhards" - Mediaite's Andrew Kirell and Noah Rothman
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The Pomp and Circumstance of the Inauguration
The only part of the inaugural ceremony required by the Constitution is the oath of office.
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Europe: America's Crystal Ball?
A new book warns that the United States is adopting a European economic culture.
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The Neoliberal Revolution
A new book gives Hayek, Friedman, and others too much credit—and too little.