July 2003

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Editor's Note

• Editor's Note: Guilty Pleasures

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• What We Believe

  Peter Bagge

  This Month Anyway

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Enjoy Your Stay

  David Weigel

  Going rate at the clink

• Book Bind

  Jacob Sullum

  Street vendor regulations

• Jury Ragging

  Jacob Sullum

  Medical pot in federal courts

• The Big Block

  Jesse Walker

  A secret online blacklist

• Ways to Vote

  Jesse Walker

  Electoral home rule

• Tough Sell

  Lisa Snell

  School choice update

• Rave On

  Sara Rimensnyder

  How a bad bill becomes a law

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Horrors Told.

Years Ago

• 25 years ago in reason

  Absurd news bites, served fresh every day.

Data

• Data: The Spoils of War

  Sara Rimensnyder

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Socialized Gambling

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Illinois pols want to muscle in on casinos.

• Media Critic, Critique Thyself

  Cathy Young

  Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? is as shoddy as the books it attacks.

• Low Budget

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Feeling blue and seeing red over a free-spending administration

Features

• Cutting the Tripwire

  Doug Bandow

  It's time to get out of Korea

• Where the Shah Went Alone

  Iraj Isaac Rahmim

  Meditations on a life under tyranny

• The Anti-Pleasure Principle

  Jacob Sullum

  The "food police" and the pseudoscience of self-denial

Culture & Reviews

• Machine Melee

  Brian Doherty

  Robot combat as the 21st-century dream sport

• Tear Down These Walls

  Charles Oliver

  Making the case for free trade

• Birth of a Medium

  Jesse Walker

  Video games, art, and moral panic

• Back to the Future

  Michael Valdez Moses

  The nostalgic yet progressive appeal of wizards, hobbits, and Jedi knights

Artifact

• Artifact

  Charles Paul Freund

  Selling Saddam