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We Don't Need No Education

Obama wants to make college grants into an entitlement. Bad idea.

Michael Moynihan | 6.5.2009 3:00 PM

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S.C. Supes to Gov. Sanford: You Will Request $700 Million in Stimulus Spending with a Smile!

Nick Gillespie | 6.5.2009 7:30 AM

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Matt Welch on KFI at 7:30 PDT Talking California Budget

Matt Welch | 6.4.2009 9:42 PM

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Matt Welch on Fox News Talking About California's Implications for the Rest of the Country

Matt Welch | 6.4.2009 1:40 PM

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Recently at Reason.tv: Free* Government Money With Matthew Lesko!

Reason Staff | 6.4.2009 9:49 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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Reason.tv: Free* Government Money With Matthew Lesko!

Reason Staff | 6.3.2009 10:30 AM

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Stimulus Tax Dollars at Work! or, When Budgets for Jails Get Cut, It's a Recession. When Ohio Cops Don't Get an Anti-Terrorist Boat, It's a Depression

Nick Gillespie | 6.3.2009 6:35 AM

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Blame the Voters, Pass the Buck

L.A. Times writers who bemoan "feel-good 'ballot box budgeting'" ignore the paper's longstanding support for bond-measure politics.

Matt Welch | 6.2.2009 6:00 PM

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Robert Samuelson: "Obama has inspired a collective fawning"

Matt Welch | 6.1.2009 11:22 AM

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The $499,000 Pension and Other Tales of California Governance

Matt Welch | 6.1.2009 9:02 AM

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Reason Morning Links: Is It Still News When the Government Takes Over a Car Company?

Jesse Walker | 6.1.2009 8:30 AM

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Matt Welch on KFI's John and Ken Show at 5 pm PDT, Talking California Budget Politics

Matt Welch | 5.29.2009 6:43 PM

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California's Silent Big Spenders

Political class refuses to explain why the state requires hysterical spending growth

Matt Welch | 5.28.2009 4:50 PM

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LAT Columnist: State Spending Problem a "Myth"…Unless You Count All State Spending

Matt Welch | 5.28.2009 11:01 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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How Could the Country's Richest State* Have One of the Most Insolvent Public Pension Systems?

Matt Welch | 5.27.2009 11:35 AM

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David Harsanyi: "i don't think you want to move to colorado …"

Nick Gillespie | 5.26.2009 1:58 PM

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Paul Krugman: If Only California Could Just Raise Taxes

Matt Welch | 5.26.2009 9:31 AM

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Reason Morning Links: Nukes, Riots, Pizza, and Other Dangers

Jesse Walker | 5.26.2009 7:35 AM

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The California Scare Campaign

Matt Welch | 5.24.2009 9:25 AM

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Loco Legislators

State and local officials are wasting your money-and their time-writing bad laws

Nicole Russell | 5.22.2009 4:30 PM

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Green Shoots bustin' out all over

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.21.2009 9:05 PM

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Going Dutch

Should America follow the model of the Netherlands on taxation and regulation? Absolutely.

Michael Moynihan | 5.21.2009 6:00 PM

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California Nightmare: All The Voters are Mad, and the Ink is Red

Brian Doherty | 5.21.2009 4:18 PM

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Matt Welch on WBAL at 3:35 EDT to Talk California Politics

Matt Welch | 5.21.2009 2:32 PM

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Why Governments Are Lousy at Running Business, But Excellent at Scaring You About "Annihilating" Budget Cuts

Matt Welch | 5.21.2009 9:26 AM

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California's Political/Journalistic Class = Fail

Matt Welch | 5.20.2009 10:40 AM

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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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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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Government Buy Nothing Days

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.18.2009 9:42 AM

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Robert Samuelson: "burgeoning debt could trigger a future financial crisis"

Matt Welch | 5.18.2009 8:59 AM

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$17 Billion in Budget Cuts: A Lot of Money; $18 Billion in Earmarks: Not a Lot

Jacob Sullum | 5.15.2009 6:46 PM

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Recently at Reason.tv: Hasta La Vista, Arnold!—What California's Economic Mess Means for America

Reason Staff | 5.15.2009 6:00 PM

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Let The Dead Bury The Dead—But They Can Pay For It With a Stimulus Check!

Nick Gillespie | 5.15.2009 9:01 AM

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Reason.tv: Hasta La Vista, Arnold!—What California's budget mess means for America

Reason Staff | 5.14.2009 12:00 PM

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…And the Calvinball and 43-Man Squamish Budgets Are Frankly Bankrupting the School District…

Brian Doherty | 5.13.2009 2:34 PM

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To Dream the Impossible Dream

Jesse Walker | 5.13.2009 10:23 AM

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Hawk in Hock

Obama pretends to be frugal as we sink deeper in debt.

Jacob Sullum | 5.13.2009 7:00 AM

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Laid Off? The Federal Government is Hiring!

Nick Gillespie | 5.12.2009 12:49 PM

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Reason.tv Redux: Why The Privately Owned Site Recovery.org, Not The Feds' Own Recovery.gov, Is Tracking Stimulus Spending in Real Time

Nick Gillespie | 5.12.2009 9:24 AM

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Tea Party: Drink Up, Democrats!

Brian Doherty | 5.11.2009 6:37 PM

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Taxpayer Money Spent to Determine Whether Your Taxpayer Money Spent to Conclude That Your Taxpayer Money Spent to Propagandize for the War Was Well Spent, Concludes That it Wasn't

Matt Welch | 5.6.2009 9:21 AM

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Reason.tv: Obama's French Toast—Just Say Non

Nick Gillespie | 4.30.2009 12:00 PM

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Storm Ahead

Financial crisis fact sheet

Brian Doherty | 4.29.2009 5:49 PM