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ifeminists November 18, 2003 Leving & Sacks	Defrauded Veterans Have Mixed Emotions on Veterans Day According to Carnell Smith, Executive Director of the National Family Justice Association, military men are often "preyed upon" by unscrupulous "father shoppers" who can make fraudulent paternity designations without penalty.
ifeminists November 18, 2003 Rex Curry	Government Schools and Unconstitutional Searches As an attorney, I believe that government schools should be unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment ban of unreasonable searches. The recent police-state raid in Goose Creek, South Carolina is another in the growing list of proofs.
Reason November 2003 Jesse Walker	Intelligence Failure Long faulted by civil libertarians as too weak a restraint, New York City's "Handschu guidelines" against harrassing police surveillance were relaxed in March. It didn't take long for police to begin taking advantage of their new harrassment powers to intimidate anti-war protestors.
Reason November 2003 Matt Welch	Golden Bear? California's surprising economy Did former California governor Gray Davis ruin California's economy? Several recent studies, academic and journalistic, suggest not, though there are storm clouds on the horizon.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Richard S. Dunham	How The Parties Got That Way One marvel of American democracy is the durability of its founding principles. The same consistency doesn't apply to the nation's major political parties, as two companion volumes from Random House on the histories of the Democrats and the Republicans show.
PC World December 2003 Bill Wallace	The Patriot Act Reconsidered Next round of antiterrorist legislation seeks to balance privacy and security.
CIO November 15, 2003 Ben Worthen	Enhanced 911 Far Behind Schedule The nationwide rollout of the Enhanced 911 (E-911) program, which requires carriers to locate the origin of 911 calls from wireless phones, will probably not happen by the Federal Communications Commission's Dec. 31, 2005, deadline.
Reason November 2003 Jesse Walker	Beyond Public and Private Business improvement districts don't fit our ordinary categories.
Reason November 2003 Cathy Young	Roy Moore's Monument Religion has a place in the American public square -- but not an exclusive one.
Reason November 2003	Show Us Your Money The USA PATRIOT Act lets the feds spy on your finances. But does it help catch terrorists?
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