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Reason May 2005 Nick Gillespie	Rant: Straight-Talkin' Prudes There are silver linings in the Senate Republicans' critical agenda.
Reason May 2005 Kohn et al.	Straight Shooting on Gun Control A debate about gun control from four viewpoints.
Reason May 2005 Matt Welch	Subsidies and Lies Few corporate welfare tales are filled with as many tawdry lies as the return of professional baseball to the nation's capital.
Reason May 2005 Jacob Sullum	Artifact: Rotten Tomato Rules The produce gatekeepers on the Florida Tomato Committee, won't allow a tasty but bumpy variety known as the UglyRipe to be shipped from the state's main growing area because they don't like the looks of it.
Reason May 2005 Ronald Bailey	Aborting Plan B Barr Pharmaceuticals wants to offer its emergency contraceptive levonorgestrel, marketed as Plan B, over the counter rather than by prescription. The FDA delayed an anticipated decision on the issue indefinitely, adding another chapter to a long and heavily politicized debate.
Reason May 2005 Jacob Sullum	Injustice is Blind Concluding that federal sentencing guidelines violated the Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury because they required sentences to be lengthened based on facts determined by judges, the Supreme Court made the guidelines advisory rather than mandatory.
Reason May 2005 Matt Welch	Bad Host Does Washington forbid American companies from hosting Iranian Web sites? Unless the companies obtain a government license, yes.
Reason May 2005 Jacob Sullum	Advertising Dissent Drug warriors back down: A district judge ruled that a 2004 law banning pro-drug advertisements from mass transit outlets was a clear example of viewpoint discrimination and therefore presumptively invalid under the First Amendment.
Reason May 2005 Brian Doherty	Pyro Power No more rockets' red glare? The art of amateur pyrotechnics may be in danger, thanks to some recent meddling by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Reason May 2005 Julian Sanchez	Data If Roe v. Wade were reversed tomorrow, what would America look like?
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