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Just as Wham!'s George Michael had his Andrew Ridgely, Michael Jackson had a mostly silent and apparently useless pal during his superstar heyday: Bubbles the Chimp, immortalized by Jeff Koons and beloved by fans.So what's up with Bubbles these days...
According to a flier obtained by Politico from a health care lobbyist, the Washington Post is selling access to its top employees. Literally."Underwriting Opportunity: An evening with the right people can alter the debate," says the one-page flier...
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Reason Magazine John Stossel says: There's No Such Thing as Free Health Care
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President Obama says government will make health care cheaper and better. But there's no free lunch.In England, health care is "free"—as long as you don't mind waiting. People wait so long for dentist appointments that some pull their own teeth. ...
Liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans may disagree on all kinds of things, but based on the way they govern, they've reached a consensus that the Bill of Rights is just way too long.Indeed, with the exception of the Third Amendment (the one about quartering of troops), is there any...
Aaron Rochester, a city councilman in Sioux City, Iowa, who led an effort to get pit bulls banned in the city is now appealing to prevent his own dog from being euthanized after it apparently bit a neighbor. His dog...
Sir Mix-A-Lot, there may yet be hope for you — and, indeed, all those who share your particular anatomical interests. And by hope, I mean public grants. According to The Sun: Sue Williams was given the cash to "explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks"...
Reason Magazine Reason.tv : Liberals and Conservatives Agree on the Bill of Rights
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If it's about helping "the environment," writes David Harsanyi, suspend reason and salvation is yours. As you've probably heard a lot of smart and compassionate folks tell you lately, doing something—anything!—is better than doing nothing. So the House of Representatives did something...
Robert at 11:21am July 1
The preening bunch of posers these people are. They have abdicated their responsibilities for doing the People's business. How can someone vote on a bill they have not even bothered to read? How can they commit the citizens of the country to a set of requirments that cause far more harm than any tangible good?
Anthony at 9:44am July 2
and the states are taking from the local goverments and everybody is taking it from us...
As to not reading the bills...many a federal congressperson has admitted that they almost never read the bills they are voting on...welcome to your government and how it really works
As to not reading the bills...many a federal congressperson has admitted that they almost never read the bills they are voting on...welcome to your government and how it really works
Earlier this month, the European Food Safety Authority ruled that Monsanto's insect resistant biotech corn variety MON810 is safe. According to the EFSA: ...MON810 is as safe as its conventional counterpart with respect to potential effects on human and animal health...
Ronald at 7:17pm July 1
If you support "scientific consensus" on Global Warming but not on GM crops, you might be a tree hugging hippie
Anthony at 9:49am July 2
This is not about science and all about profits move along nothing new here...
The truth being that the time frame of the study on possible effects is way to short...and like others have stated we really won't know until we have uh taken a bite out of the apple...
The truth being that the time frame of the study on possible effects is way to short...and like others have stated we really won't know until we have uh taken a bite out of the apple...
A joke, appropriate for many of the current debates about our economy:Q: How do you know macroeconomists have a sense of humor? A: They use decimal points...
The Wash Post's Steven Pearlstein lays into the ways in which the ag industry boondoggled cap-and-trade:Farmers demanded that they be allowed to earn some extra cash by reducing the carbon footprint on their farms and selling these "offsets" to the factories and power plants unlucky enough to be...
Just a few weeks ago, progressive health-care reform looked like a done deal. And the so-called "public plan"—a government-run insurance option beloved by the Democratic Party's most liberal faction—was to be its centerpiece...
O'Brien at 4:09pm June 29
Seems as though we are the sole industrialized/first-world
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Japan's post-bubble policies produced a "lost decade." So why is President Obama emulating them? Anthony Randazzo, Michael Flynn and Adam B. Summers
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For the United States to fully recover its investment, the value of General Motors stock will have to reach levels it has never before attained....
Reason Magazine The CBO's Dire Projections
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How bad is the CBO's latest report on the country's budgetary future? The Washington Post calls the office's numbers "dire." U.S. News says they're "off the wall." And in a post about ...
How the "Public Option" of Health Insurance Went From Inevitable to Imperiled: Some straight talk fr
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Just a few weeks ago, progressive health-care reform looked like a done deal. And the so-called "public plan"—a government-run insurance option beloved by the Democratic Party's most liberal faction—was to be the legislation's centerpiece.
Luke at 5:17pm June 29
I am not sure where people got the notion they are entitled to "free" medical care at the expense of others. Ultimately, that healthcare has to be paid for by someone- extorted from them, really (as Justin S. pointed out). Taxing "the rich" is a joke, as business taxes are always passed on to the consumer anyway.
Luke at 5:22pm June 29
@Scott K.
I agree, but the medical industry is so heavily regulated and the legal liability so great that our free market dreams are just that. :( Competition is -great- for the consumer and I would love to be able to shop around comparing price and value in a free market of medical care. Ah well, a man can dream, can't he?
I agree, but the medical industry is so heavily regulated and the legal liability so great that our free market dreams are just that. :( Competition is -great- for the consumer and I would love to be able to shop around comparing price and value in a free market of medical care. Ah well, a man can dream, can't he?
By now, it's clear that Mark Sanford has about as much of a future in politics as he does in sumo wrestling...
Step 1: Watch the government panic. Step 2: Be a rich company. Step 3: Profit! Here's your daily must-read, for the masochists among you: "Bailout of U.S...
Friend of Reason Ryan Grim's new book This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America goes on sale today. Look for an excerpt/adaptation from the book in the August/September issue of Reason. Here are a couple nice early reviews for the book...
Luke at 11:30am June 29
It is astonishing that even in the face of economic collapse, State and Federal governments still pursue the War on Drugs with vigor. It makes absolutely no sense to me. For fuck's sake, the Taliban would be bankrupted if opiates were legalized.
Zack at 1:28pm June 29
Elections and legislations are more about "integrity" and "values" than about what government was originally assigned to do. This is not astonishing. It's predictably dangerous... besides, don't you get that "long term benefits" will come from doing this stuff?
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I wrote a short article for our October issue about how it was illegal—and had been for more than a century—for Coloradans to collect precipitation that falls on their property. The law also ...
Eric at 2:46pm June 29
I didn't know it was illegal to collect rain water in Colorado..isn't that rediculous. I wonder how many other states has this law. Can't they focus their laws and energy on folks who harm others. I suppose people could be arrested for having rain guages if it was ever enforced.
Jay at 6:03pm June 29
Water rights laws in the west are complex. I worked at a ranch in New Mexico where we taught backpacking to kids. We wanted to reuse our shower water for irrigation. We found out it was illegal. We were only permitted one use for the water and then we had to discharge it back underground.
Sort of appropriate, I think: …while the five-month old Obama White House Web site has drawn rave reviews for its fresh design and innovation, several experts say it has not moved the White House toward being “the most open and transparent [administration] in history,” as new media...
From our July issue, Shawn Macomber describes how one Pennsylvania town tried—and failed—to ban a form of exercise.Read all about it here.
In response to my article about his project to create a toaster from scratch, artist Thomas Thwaites sent me the following email:I'm writing to address the misinterpretation (misrepresentation?) of my project in your article. Obviously projects of this nature are open to interpretation and the...
Judge Richard Posner, pondering (Posnering?) the troubled current state of what was one of the most profitable industries of the 20th century, attempts to think outside the bun:Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar...
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If there is anything crystal clear about the evolution of the financial crisis, it’s that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were problems. These government sponsored entities (GSEs) significantly contributed ...
• The House may vote as early as today on cap and trade. • The U.S. just might manage to withdraw its troops from Iraqi cities by June 30 after all...
In 2002 I interviewed Will Foster, on Oklahoma man whose 1995 arrest for growing medical marijuana had attracted international attention after he received a 93-year prison sentence. Foster, who grew the marijuana to treat his rheumatoid arthritis, had been released in April 2001 after serving...
On its way to earning more money than you can possibly imagine, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is drawing a small storm of indignation—and not just because it's as godawful as every other Michael Bay flick...
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As the debate over health care reform gets underway, Reason.tv asks, What if government ran health care? Approximately one minute. Produced by Meredith Bragg, Austin Bragg, and Nick Gillespie. For more videos, visit http://reason.tv
Colin at 4:52pm June 26
There are situations in life where "every man for himself" is a self-defeating attitude. Face it America, the health of fellow citizens ultimately is manifest as the health of the nation.
Most libertarians are pragmatic enough to admit there is merit in a system of public sewers as a disease prevention measure. Universal health care extends that ... Read Moreprinciple.
Few individuals would abandon a child in need, but America fails thousands of sick children each day. How is that justified? ...Easily if you are an insurance company.
The greatness of a nation is measured, not by the situation of those who are best off, but by the living conditions of the least of its citizens.
Most libertarians are pragmatic enough to admit there is merit in a system of public sewers as a disease prevention measure. Universal health care extends that ... Read Moreprinciple.
Few individuals would abandon a child in need, but America fails thousands of sick children each day. How is that justified? ...Easily if you are an insurance company.
The greatness of a nation is measured, not by the situation of those who are best off, but by the living conditions of the least of its citizens.
Sash at 5:36pm June 26
living conditions are worse off for the least of its citizens in nations where govts are much more interventionist in their economies, and libertarians aren't against charity or helping the poor, we are just against the govt doing it.
we care more about the poor than you, colin, if you look at history soicalist economic policies make conditions worse off for the poor, so you must hate the poor lol, why else would you support such policies.
we care more about the poor than you, colin, if you look at history soicalist economic policies make conditions worse off for the poor, so you must hate the poor lol, why else would you support such policies.
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Political smarty Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic presents the case for, and against, the national political significance of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's adultery scandal. I think "against" wins, but here are selections from both sides of the argument:
In the latest edition of Friday Funnies, Scott Stantis tracks the progress of the Obama stimulus.
It's that time of the year again: time for the re-introduction of the perennially hopeless Enumerated Powers Act in Congress. Rep...
The AP reports that Kerry has asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) if he can use $300,000 from his campaign fund to invest in a documentary about Iraq War veterans: The 2004 presidential nominee wants to be an executive producer for a movie tentatively titled "Keeping Faith," by White...
From Michael Goldfarb, a friend from my days at The Weekly Standard:Basically, cap and trade strikes me as the Iraq war of the Democratic domestic policy agenda. It's the overreach moment...
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Property rights were probably the last thing on President Barack Obama's mind when he selected Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter. But that hasn't stopped Sotomayor's ...
Reason Magazine The ACLU's Sellout on Watch Lists: Why did the civil liberties group effectively endorse a federal program it has repeatedly criticized?
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Everyone has a price. For the American Civil Liberties Union, it turns out to be about half a million dollars.Last week, the ACLU published a study condemning federal laws that are designed to prevent charities from providing "material support" for terrorism. ...
Anthony at 2:23pm June 25
Understood but, this is why you watch the impact of someones actions and not their proclamations regarding motivation and intent.
Adam at 6:25pm June 25
This made me sad.
Reason Magazine The Difference Between 'They Should Die' and 'I'll Kill You'
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Yesterday the FBI arrested awhite supremacist in New Jersey for threatening federal judges, based on his online response to the recent 7th Circuit decision that said the Second Amendment does not constrain state and local governments. ...
A good point that isn't made often enough:"When was the last time human beings modernized our energy sources by making older power sources more expensive?" [asks Michael Shellenberger, co-founder of the tiny, Oakland-based think tank the Breakthrough Institute in 2002 with and Ted Nordhaus] "And,...
In 1998 Pino Arlacchi, executive director of the U.N. Drug Control Program, declared: "Global coca leaf and opium poppy acreage totals an area less than half the size of Puerto Rico...
Tonight, starting at 6 p.m., Reason magazine’s D.C.-based staff will host a Happy Hour at the acclaimed Marvin bar on 14th street just above U...
Videos > Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne on Internet Sales Taxes, Naked Short-Selling & Regulatory Cap
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Last week Ha'aretz ran a story about medical marijuana in Israel (the country where THC was first isolated, back in 1964). It provides some interesting contrasts with the situation in the United States. ...
Reason Magazine The U.N.'s 10-Year Plan to Eradicate Drugs: How'd That Go?
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In 1998 Pino Arlacchi, executive director of the U.N. Drug Control Program, declared: "Global coca leaf and opium poppy acreage totals an area less than half the size of Puerto Rico. There is no reason ...
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Over at The American Prospect, foreign policy commentator Matthew Duss goes much further than I did yesterday in criticizing hawkish reactions to the recent events in Iran (which seems to have taken an ominous turn today). ...
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Over the past few years, Google has proven a great success in China, capturing more than 30 percent of the online search market. But along the way, it's irked government authorities eager to control the flow of information and ideas. ...
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This week, a new exhibit called "The Toaster Project" opens at the Royal College of Art in London, England. On his website, artist Thomas Thwaites explains the gist: "I'm trying to build ...
BTW within the single-payer system, there continue to be private health care ... Read... Read More Moreproviders. The Canadian system is actually a mix of public and private providers.
The key point is that it is wrong to imagine that adding insurance companies to the mix improves health care for anyone. The insurance company role is that of a parasite, sapping about 15% of health care dollars as compared to 1% in the single-payer case.
Insurance companies are oligopolies, and that has little in common with free enterprise or any other public good.