Last Week's Top 5 Hits at Reason.com

Here are the top five most popular columns that ran at Reason.com between July 27 and August 1. Check 'em out once again or for the first time:

The Henry Louis Gates "Teaching Moment": Put the race talk aside: the issue here is abuse of police power, and misplaced deference to authority, by Radley Balko (7/27)

A Minimum Wage Equals Minimum Jobs: The unseen costs of minimum wage laws, by John Stossel (7/30)

Markets, Not Mandates: How medical markets would improve health care and reduce costs, by Ronald Bailey (7/28)

A Hole They Dug for Themselves: There's nothing surprising about the crises in state budgets, by Steve Chapman (7/30)

The Myth of Free-Market Health Care in America: Why other Western countries offer no panacea for American woes, by Shikha Dalmia (7/30)

Comments

[hmm]

Who is this Gates fellow?

[Xeones]

Did you guys hear that Michael Jackson died?

[Mad Max]

I tried to pimp this story in the mark-to-market thread, but folks were so busy with the sexy details of financial policy to notice.

Indian Health Minister says that TV is the best contraception:

'Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Health and Family Welfare Minister [of India], has called for the country to redouble its efforts to bring electricity to all of its huge rural population.

'The introduction of the electric light and television sets to those vast areas that still did not have them would discourage procreation, he argued.

'"If there is electricity in every village, then people will watch TV till late at night and then fall asleep. They won't get a chance to produce children," Mr Azad said. "When there is no electricity there is nothing else to do but produce babies."

'He added: "Don't think that I am saying this in a lighter vein. I am serious. TV will have a great impact. It's a great medium to tackle the problem . . . 80 per cent of population growth can be reduced through TV."'

[brotherben]

"What method of birth control do you use?"

"That Conan fellow seems to work very well, thanks."

[allmiT]

it doesnt matter because Americas REAL 2 party system is washington and wall st

http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2009/08/americas-real-2-party-system.html

[William]

Wow, a weekly propaganda sweepstakes! Cool!

[Put on Your Tony Hat!]

Not a Suderman post in the bunch.