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InternetNews July 5, 2005 Roy Mark	Finance Firms To Give FTC ID Theft Data The financial services industry is pooling its own data on identity theft victims with the Federal Trade Commission and law enforcement groups.
Reason July 2005 Damon W. Root	Unleash the Judges A principled form of libertarian judicial activism, therefore, is clearly consistent with the basic requirement of a free society: the protection of individual rights against the tyranny of the majority.
Reason July 2005 Cathy Young	Bizarre Bedfellows The passing of Andrea Dworkin--feminist polemicist, anti-porn crusader, and loony extraordinaire--drew strangely admiring obituaries from several feminists who vehemently disagreed with her in life.
Reason July 2005 Jesse Walker	Rant: "Values" and the Democrats Will the moral grandstanding never end? The one good thing about the permanent floating values debate is that it makes the politicos' pandering that much more obvious.
Reason July 2005 Matt Welch	Welfare Queen Farm subsidies for the filthy rich: Britain's queen received approximately $1.3 million in farm subsidies... Ted Turner nets a minimum of $698,127... etc.
Reason July 2005 Kerry Howley	Assault Ambiguity Marriage bans and domestic abuse: Ohio isn't the only state whose same-sex marriage ban has had unintended consequences.
Reason July 2005 Jacob Sullum	Heresy on the Right Conservatives and the drug war: an independent policy analyst's report does not advocate the repeal of prohibition in the U.S., but it does reject central aspects of the drug policy status quo.
Reason July 2005 Ronald Bailey	Censored Science Speaking out on stem cells: The Washington Post noted that even President Bush's handpicked NIH director, Elias Zerhouni, may not be on board with administration's stem cell policy.
Reason July 2005 Julian Sanchez	Ten Percent Solution The Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Secure Flight passenger profiling system reforms stall at the gate: Congress established 10 criteria to ensure the program would both be effective and protect traveler privacy. A March report found that only one benchmark has been met.
Reason July 2005 Kerry Howley	Save the Frankenfish! Is the snakehead endangered? Environmental groups are using the Endangered Species Act to lock up land from development rather than save threatened species, and they want some reform from Washington.
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