Barack Obama

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What's the Hurry?

The problem with Obama's push for government-run health insurance

David Harsanyi | 6.17.2009 12:00 PM

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Newt Gingrich Reduced to Quoting Film Version of FDR for Political Inspiration

Nick Gillespie | 6.17.2009 9:15 AM

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Obama Concerned About Deficit; Prepared to Do Anything But Cut Spending

Nick Gillespie | 6.17.2009 8:25 AM

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George Will (and Jacob Sullum) on The Illegality of the Chrysler Deal

Nick Gillespie | 6.15.2009 6:59 AM

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Is Obama the New Head Coach of the Detroit Lions or the President of the United States?

Nick Gillespie | 6.12.2009 9:31 AM

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Ron Hart: Introducing the fall lineup of GM/Chrysler cars

Nick Gillespie | 6.11.2009 3:53 PM

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UPDATE: CHARLIE LYNCH SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR AND A DAY; Free pending appeal Charlie Lynch Sentencing Is Today, June 11: Will Legal Medical Marijuana Dispensary Owner Go to Jail for Helping the Sick?

Nick Gillespie | 6.11.2009 3:01 PM

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Who Caused the Federal Deficit? You & Me, but Mostly Bush and Obama

Nick Gillespie | 6.10.2009 9:45 AM

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Why Not Just Bind & Whip The Secured Creditors With Soft Corinthian Leather? Details of Chryslyer Deal as Unappealing as 1975 Cordoba!

Nick Gillespie | 6.10.2009 8:20 AM

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The Beginning of the End of Private Health Insurance

How Obama's public health insurance option will quickly evolve into the only option

Ronald Bailey | 6.9.2009 3:00 PM

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Obama, Still in Love With France, Would Do Well To Avoid Following Suit on Reality-Show Workers Rights…

Nick Gillespie | 6.9.2009 10:48 AM

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Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: Installing New Air Conditioners For Old Folks Who Question The Wisdom of Stimulus Dollars

Nick Gillespie | 6.9.2009 7:43 AM

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Reason.tv: Medical Marijuana's Whipping Boy, Charlie Lynch, to be Sentenced June 11; Faces five years for legally operating a dispensary in California

Nick Gillespie | 6.8.2009 12:00 PM

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Obama's Betrayal on Don't Ask Don't Tell

The president's forgotten civil rights promise.

Shikha Dalmia | 6.5.2009 12:00 PM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on Obama's Pusillanimity on Don't Ask Don't Tell

Reason Staff | 6.4.2009 10:55 AM

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California: Harbinger of Fiscal Doom

What the Golden State's bleak future means for America

Brian Doherty | 6.3.2009 3:00 PM

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GM Deal Builds, Then Destroys Driving Excitement Like a 1985 Pontiac Fiero

Nick Gillespie | 6.3.2009 9:16 AM

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What "not running GM" Looks Like

Matt Welch | 6.2.2009 2:48 PM

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There Is No Such Thing As a Free Health Care. But There Are Lots of Things Called Free-er Health Care That Get Really, Really Expensive In Ways That Range Far Beyond Dollars and Cents.

Nick Gillespie | 6.2.2009 8:09 AM

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Bailout Mentality 101

Matt Welch | 6.2.2009 7:59 AM

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Turning Japanese

Japan's post-bubble policies produced a "lost decade." So why is President Obama emulating them?

Anthony Randazzo, Michael Flynn, and Adam Summers | 6.2.2009 7:00 AM

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Robert Samuelson: "Obama has inspired a collective fawning"

Matt Welch | 6.1.2009 11:22 AM

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GM Rolls Downhill, with Aid of Wind, Taxpayer, Into Bankruptcy

Nick Gillespie | 6.1.2009 7:29 AM

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If The President Is So Hip With New Media, How The Hell Did This Video Ever Get Released by The White House?

Nick Gillespie | 5.28.2009 10:19 AM

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Glenn Reynolds Debuts InstaVision!

Nick Gillespie | 5.28.2009 9:20 AM

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Reason.tv: From the horror masters behind The Auto Bailout, The Stimulus Package, & White House Poetry Night comes a story of true terror…

Reason Staff | 5.27.2009 12:00 PM

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A Tentative Embrace of Charter Schools?

Matt Welch | 5.27.2009 9:44 AM

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U.S. Military Takes Long-Term Lease With Option to Buy in Iraq & Afghanistan

Nick Gillespie | 5.27.2009 7:47 AM

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Sonia Sotomayor on Gun Rights and Racial Preferences

Why libertarians-and everyone who believes in limited government-should worry about Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee

Damon Root | 5.26.2009 6:00 PM

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The Democratic Party: NRA Pawns?

Brian Doherty | 5.26.2009 4:43 PM

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Reason.tv: Morticians Association of America Endorses President Obama's Tough Fuel Efficiency Standards

Reason Staff | 5.26.2009 4:30 PM

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A Public Service Message From Reason.tv: If You Want Health Care Coverage, Go Out and Get Some!

Reason Staff | 5.23.2009 8:12 AM

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Bailouts: Still Totally Unpopular

Matt Welch | 5.22.2009 9:08 AM

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Reason.tv: The President's Briefing Book is B.S.!—Nick Gillespie on Obama's latest fake P.R. stunt

Reason Staff | 5.21.2009 4:30 PM

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History of Weed

Nick Gillespie | 5.21.2009 3:52 PM

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In Anticipation of Gov't-Run Health Care…

Nick Gillespie | 5.21.2009 10:05 AM

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Paying With Our Sins

Now is the time to legalize (and tax) drugs, prostitution, and gambling

Nick Gillespie | 5.20.2009 6:00 PM

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The Housing Boom and Bust

Thomas Sowell on how government policies made the housing crisis possible

Brian Doherty | 5.20.2009 4:30 PM

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Coming to Your Garage: Le Car

The trouble with the government's new automobile emissions and efficiency standards

David Harsanyi | 5.20.2009 2:00 PM

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Hitchens' rules of comedy: If it bends it's funny; if it breaks it's not

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.19.2009 3:11 PM

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Reason.tv: Privatization in the Age of Obama—Reason Foundation's Adrian Moore and Len Gilroy on What's Next

Reason Staff | 5.19.2009 3:00 PM

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Keeping People Imprisoned is Expensive, But Releasing Them? Now You're Talking Real Money

Brian Doherty | 5.19.2009 1:16 PM

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Obama and Big Labor: Look for the Union Label

Nick Gillespie | 5.19.2009 11:24 AM

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Even Gov. Arnold Won't Defend His Record/Ballot Initiatives in Today's Special Election in California!

Nick Gillespie | 5.19.2009 7:49 AM

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Obushma Watch: Torture Photo Flip Flop and Reactions Division

Brian Doherty | 5.18.2009 9:18 AM

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Reason Morning Links: The Tigers Lie Down With a Bam

Jesse Walker | 5.18.2009 8:30 AM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Nick Gillespie in The New York Times on Legalizing Drugs, Gambling, and Prostitution

Reason Staff | 5.17.2009 7:59 AM

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The Age of Debt

Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility"-and delivers the opposite.

Veronique de Rugy | 5.15.2009 4:00 PM