February 2010

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Editor's Note

• More Than Zero

  Matt Welch

  Why won’t people who love to make zero-sum arguments about the economy apply their own lessons to government spending?

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Gay Rescue

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Saving Iraqi homosexuals

• Hungry Havana

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Food politics in Cuba

• Conformity Kills

  Ronald Bailey

  Success vs. innovation

• Seller’s Remorse

  Peter Suderman

  Who owns your software?

• Basketball Boondoggle

  Damon W. Root

  Eminent domain in Brooklyn

• Biofuel Bust

  Ronald Bailey

  Greenhouse gas control

• Turncoat Lobby

  Peter Suderman

  Senators for sale

• No Class

  Radley Balko

  J-school students harassed

• iWatch

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Big Brother L.A.

• Maine Chance

  Jacob Sullum

  Medical marijuana victory

• Book of Jobs

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Created or saved

• Medicare Monster Mash

  Ronald Bailey

• Armed and Vulnerable

  Jacob Sullum

  Philadelphia gun study

Soundbites

• I’m a Criminal, You’re a Criminal

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

Years Ago

• 35 years ago in reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes February 2010

Lists

• Good Gun News

Columns

• Ninth Configurations

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Rights “retained by the people” make a comeback

• The Greatest Business Story Ever Told

  Greg Beato

  How Bible publishers went forth and multiplied

• Who Wants to Tax a Millionaire?

  Veronique de Rugy

  The “millionaire’s tax” will affect more people than you think.

• The Folly of Unilateral Disarmament

  Jacob Sullum

  At Fort Hood “more guns” were “the solution to gun violence.”

• Death of a Watchdog Pete Shellem, Crime Reporter

  Radley Balko

• Does Better Health Care Mean Higher Costs?

  Ronald Bailey

  Medical innovation boosts life expectancy, not spending

Features

• The Forfeiture Racket

  Radley Balko

  Police and prosecutors won't give up their license to steal.

• Class War

  Steven Greenhut

  How public servants became our masters

• P.C. Never Died

  Greg Lukianoff

  Think campus censorship disappeared in the 1990s? Guess again.

Culture & Reviews

• How Green Are Your Nukes?

  Ronald Bailey

  Environmentalists spar over nuclear power

• Looking at the World Through a Windshield

  Jesse Walker

  A truck-driving rebellion against the regulatory state

• Live From the Cannabis Café

  Nancy Rommelmann

  A marijuana restaurant opens in Oregon.

Book Reviews

• Give It Away Now

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Newspaper Apotheosize

  Brian Doherty

Briefly Noted

• We the Living Lives

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Exposing Mexican Injustice

  Radley Balko

• I Love Local Commercials!

  Radley Balko

Artifact

• Watchdogs and Watches

  Radley Balko

  Russian journalists publish a subtle exposé.