February 2006

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Editor's Note

• If You Enjoyed Your ChristmasTree, Thank an Immigrant

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Zoned Out

  Jeff Taylor

  Taking the Amish to court.

• Better Not Shop Around

  Jacob Sullum

  Online cigarette sales.

• Blowing Off Steam

  Julian Sanchez

  Detainee deaths.

• Couch Potato Subsidies

  Julian Sanchez

  TV goes digital.

• Good Migrations

  Ronald Bailey

  Foreign labor, native wages.

• Fruit Use

  Matt Welch

  Eminent domain in New Orleans.

• Mini Media Moguls

  Kerry Howley

  Teens on the Web.

• DUI Judgment

  Kerry Howley

  Presumed sober.

• Outsource Locally

  Jesse Walker

  Manufacturing networks.

Columns

• Hold the Good News

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Iraq's pathetic payoff.

• Smears in Cyberspace

  Cathy Young

  Blogs and media ethics.

• The War on Sedition

  Matt Welch

  "Anglosphere" allies crack down on speech in the name of fighting terror.

Features

• Six Reasons to Kill Farm Subsidies and Trade Barriers

  Daniel Griswold, Stephen Slivinski & Christopher Preble

  A no-nonsense reform strategy.

• The Age of Corporate Environmentalism

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Surprise--big business has learned that it's pretty easy being green.

• America's Criminal Immigration Policy

  Jesse James DeConto

  How U.S. law punishes hard work.

Culture & Reviews

• Mark Twain vs. Tom Sawyer

  Nick Gillespie

  The bold deconstruction of a national icon.

• The Eccentric Revolutionaries

  Jesse Walker

  Banned for decades in the Soviet Union, a subversive comedy finally comes to DVD.

• Blood, Guts, and Entertainment

  Justin Peters

  A sanguine take on sanguinary diversions.

• Happiness Is...Higher Taxes

  Will Wilkinson

  Is one man's productivity another man's pollution?

• Persian Letters

  Michael Young

  Three personal accounts of modern Iran.

Artifact

• Artifact: The Case of the Invisible Moose

  Nick Gillespie & Tim Cavanaugh