March 2004

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Book of Revelations

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Swingers of the World, Unite!

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Contempt for Free Speech

  Brian Doherty

  Who's a journalist?

• Democracy in Haiti

  Brian Doherty

  Nation building aftermath

• Commercial Appeals

  Jacob Sullum

  Victories for federalism

• Got Bilk?

  Julian Sanchez

  Compelling speech

• That Won't Fly

  Julian Sanchez

  TSA confusion

• Unreal Numbers

  Jacob Sullum

  Drug abuse cost estimates

• Do Not Go Pass Go

  Jesse Walker

  Transit visas stalled.

• Waste Not, Why Not?

  Lisa Snell

  Excess school savings

• Facts on the Ground

  Matt Welch

  Eminent domain for dummies

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

  Absurd news bites, served fresh every day.

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Outing History

  Julian Sanchez

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago

Data

• Data: InvestaPundit

  Julian Sanchez

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Waiting for Antar

  Charles Paul Freund

  Saddam, suicide, and cultural despair

• Opening Marriage

  Cathy Young

  Do same-sex unions pave the way for polygamy?

• Two-Faced Power

  Jeff Taylor

  I love my country, but my government confuses the hell out of me.

Features

• Confessions of a Welfare Queen

  John Stossel

  How rich bastards like me rip off taxpayers for millions of dollars

• Babylonian Hostility

  Nir Rosen

  In Iraq, the Jews -- and anti-Semitism -- are everywhere

• Coercion vs. Consent

  Richard Epstein, Randy Barnett, David Friedman & James P. Pinkerton

• Faith, Shame, and Insurgency

  Steven Vincent

  Life in occupied Iraq

Culture & Reviews

• The Music Never Stopped

  Brian Doherty

  Recordings depend on music, not vice versa.

• Blood Money

  Damon W. Root

  Gettysburg's status as a national symbol is inseparable from its commercial success.

• Talkin' 'Bout Regeneration

  David Weigel

  Politics, pop culture, and teen spirit

• McLuhan's War

  Nick Gillespie

  TV and Tailgunner Joe

Artifacts

• Artifact: Quick Change

  Charles Paul Freund