October 2006

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Let the Sun Shine In

  Nick Gillespie

• That's Fog Coming From Al Gore's Smoke-Free Guns

  Nick Gillespie

  When Politicians Claim to Speak With Conviction, Voters Should Be Especially Wary.

Citings

• Watching the Kids

  Macy Hanson

  Surveillance in the U.K.

• MySuit

  Brian Doherty

  Cybersex crimes

• Deadly Disarmament

  Jacob Sullum

  U.N. gun control

• Money Talks

  Brian Doherty

  Campaign finance and talk radio

• Studying Shrooms

  Jacob Sullum

  Psilocybin and spirituality

• Foul Shot

  Ronald Bailey

  Autism and the MMR vaccine

• Get Out of Town

  David Weigel

  Cities vs. immigrants

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• A Long Republican Reign?

  David Weigel

  Jim Geraghty interviewed by David Weigel

• Soundbite: A Long Republican Reign?

  David Weigel

  Jim Geraghty interviewed by David Weigel

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: National Parking

  Kerry Howley

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• They Don't Know Jack

  David Weigel

  The Abramoff scandal thrills Washington but bores voters.

• Crying 'Treason'

  Cathy Young

  The right goes into hysterics over The New York Times.

• America Gives a Shit

  Jeff Jarvis

  Was Bush's open-mic gaffe a flaming sack of good news for free speech?

Features

• How to Fire an Incompetent Teacher

  John Stossel

  An illustrated guide to New York's public school bureaucracy

• The Case of Cory Maye

  Radley Balko

  A cop is dead, an innocent man may be on death row, and drug warriors keep knocking down doors.

• Ova for Sale

  Kerry Howley

  The art of the deal in the gray market for human eggs

Interviews

• The State of War and Domestic Terrorism

  Nick Gillespie & Jesse Walker

  Chet Richards and John Mueller discuss where we're at five years after the 9/11 attacks.

Culture & Reviews

• CleanFlicks v. Kate Winslet's Breasts

  Nick Gillespie

  How Hollywood won a legal battle while losing a cultural war

• The Longneck Tail

  Jay R. Brooks

  A revolution in American beer

• It Can't Happen Here

  David Weigel

  The fantasy worlds of war-on-terror novels

Book Reviews

• The Real Mommy Wars

  Shannon Chamberlain

  Both left and right attack mothers for the choices they make.

• 'A Glorious Liberty Document'

  Damon W. Root

  Frederick Douglass' case for an anti-slavery Constitution

Artifacts

• Artifact: Natural or Synthetic?

  Ronald Bailey