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Can We Trust the GOP?

The Republicans have retaken the House, but that doesn't mean you should expect the government to get any smaller.

Veronique de Rugy | 1.12.2011 4:30 PM

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Reason.tv: Delta Smelt and Undocumented Farm Workers: How Federal Policy Is Failing California's Central Valley

Reason Staff | 1.12.2011 3:00 PM

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Gun Owner Who Showed Restraint, Good Judgment Is Apparently an Argument Against Gun Ownership

Radley Balko | 1.12.2011 2:35 PM

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A Democratic Legislator Has Been Shot. Therefore Republicans Should Change the Name of Their Health Care Repeal Bill.

Peter Suderman | 1.12.2011 2:09 PM

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Reasoner on Fox & Friends: Nick Gillespie Talks Independent Voters, Dem Spendthrifts, & GOP B.S. Artists

Reason Staff | 1.12.2011 1:25 PM

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The New Age Assassin

Jesse Walker | 1.12.2011 1:08 PM

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L.A. Times: "Loughner's ramblings appear rooted in far right"

Matt Welch | 1.12.2011 12:23 PM

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If Mental Illness Made Him Do It, Why Punish Him?

Jacob Sullum | 1.12.2011 12:02 PM

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This "Conversation" Is a Set-Up

Political rhetoric is not the problem.

David Harsanyi | 1.12.2011 12:00 PM

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Heavy Metal and the Tucson Shootings

Damon Root | 1.12.2011 11:48 AM

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Palin's Not Complicit in Loughner Shooting, but She Sure Ain't Presidential, Either.

Nick Gillespie | 1.12.2011 11:02 AM

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Reasoners on TV: Matt Welch on Judge Napolitano's Freedom Watch Talking QE2 and WikiLeaks

Reason Staff | 1.12.2011 8:59 AM

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The Lone Gunman Theory of Legislation

The perils of letting armed lunatics drive public policy

Jacob Sullum | 1.12.2011 7:00 AM

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David Frum on Jared Loughner's Reefer Madness

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2011 5:56 PM

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The Extreme Rhetoric about Extreme Rhetoric (With Bonus Fake Sinclair Lewis Fascism Quote!)

Michael Moynihan | 1.11.2011 5:21 PM

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Never Waste a Crisis, No Labels!

Matt Welch | 1.11.2011 4:57 PM

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Just Your Typical Would-Be Assassin

Tuscon shooter Jared Loughner fits the profile of a killer. But not in the way you might think.

Ronald Bailey | 1.11.2011 4:30 PM

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GOA's Larry Pratt Says He Supports Legal Residents' Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2011 3:25 PM

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Apocalypse Not: In a World Without the Tomo-Kahni State Historical Park, Survivors Would Envy the Dead

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.11.2011 3:17 PM

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Reason.tv: 5 Rules for Coping with Tragedy

Reason Staff | 1.11.2011 3:00 PM

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Former Rep. Kanjorski, who Called for the Execution of a Gubernatorial Candidate, on Civility in Politics

Nick Gillespie | 1.11.2011 2:41 PM

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Cartoon "Self-Hatred" and "Viciousness"

Matt Welch | 1.11.2011 1:25 PM

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The Monetary Theories of Boom Ba

Jesse Walker | 1.11.2011 12:10 PM

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Loughner's Thoughts "often confused other conspiracy theorists" at UFO Website

Peter Suderman | 1.11.2011 12:02 PM

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Hating the "Sinner"

Gay marriage and social conservatism

David Harsanyi | 1.11.2011 12:00 PM

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Loughner's Lawyer

Damon Root | 1.11.2011 10:40 AM

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3rd-Ranking Dem: Post-Loughner, Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine

Matt Welch | 1.11.2011 10:32 AM

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57% of Americans Think "Tone" of Politics Had Nothing to do with Tucson Shooting

Nick Gillespie | 1.11.2011 10:24 AM

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Reason Writers on Teevee: Matt Welch Talks Jerry Brown's Austerity Budget on Varney & Co.

Reason Staff | 1.11.2011 9:28 AM

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Big Trouble in the Lone Star State

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.11.2011 8:23 AM

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The View From the Sidelines

The pros and cons of political self-marginalization

Matt Welch | 1.11.2011 7:00 AM

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Great Second Amendment News: Heller Can Be Retroactive

Brian Doherty | 1.10.2011 10:49 PM

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Reasoners on the Tube: Nick Gillespie Discusses Debt Ceiling, Gov't Spending on Parker Spitzer

Reason Staff | 1.10.2011 9:46 PM

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Big News Events Make Blatherers of Us All

Brian Doherty | 1.10.2011 9:20 PM

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Cal Budget: Even With Steep Cuts, Your Kids Will Still Meditate In School

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.10.2011 6:58 PM

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Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Sentenced to Three Years

Brian Doherty | 1.10.2011 5:31 PM

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Commerce Clause Stirrings at the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 1.10.2011 5:05 PM

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He Did Not Have a License to Kill Either

Jacob Sullum | 1.10.2011 4:21 PM

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"When his music changed, Wayne Lo changed, and in time two people lay dead"

Damon Root | 1.10.2011 3:24 PM

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Reasoners on the Tube: Nick Gillespie Talks Up Gov. Jerry Brown (Whose Aura Smiles & Never Frowns)

Reason Staff | 1.10.2011 3:14 PM

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Grading the Governors in 2010: Q&A with the Cato Institute's Chris Edwards

Reason Staff | 1.10.2011 3:00 PM

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Paul Helmke Indicts Wayne LaPierre for Mass Murder While Condemning 'Heated Political Rhetoric'

Jacob Sullum | 1.10.2011 2:56 PM

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Loughner Explanation Watch: Bad Metal Music

Brian Doherty | 1.10.2011 2:03 PM

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About That Supposed American Renaissance Link….

Matt Welch | 1.10.2011 12:17 PM

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The Year in Clemency

The major pardon and commutation stories of 2010

Radley Balko | 1.10.2011 12:00 PM

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Parents of Slain 9 Year Old Speak

Nick Gillespie | 1.10.2011 11:50 AM