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Reason September 2005 Charles Paul Freund	Flood Insurance A Palestinian Koranic scholar has become convinced that passages in the Koran dealing with the divine punishment of terrible sin are actually about the U.S. and predicts massive tsunamis will wipe out the country in 2007.
Reason September 2005 Jacob Sullum	Data: Pot Bust If you have any lingering doubts about the political establishment's hypocrisy when it comes to drugs, consider this: Marijuana arrests reached an all-time high during the administration of the first acknowledged pot smoker to occupy the White House.
Reason September 2005	Soundbite: Spokesman for Speech An interview with attorney Floyd Abrams on important issues involving free expression in the United States.
ifeminists August 3, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Is The Boy Scouts of America Public or Private? The Boy Scouts should cease to accept tax-funding and cut all official ties to government agencies. The Boy Scouts should live up to its self-declared status as a private organization. This would also be living up to the Boy Scouts' principles: it is the honest and honorable thing to do.
ifeminists August 3, 2005 Carey Roberts	Another Scandal Brewing at the U.N. Ignoring the life-and-death needs of men, categorically blaming males for the woes of women, and claiming women are a biologically-superior species - these are the hallmarks of a morally-bankrupt organization that is destined to go the way of the League of Nations.
InternetNews August 3, 2005 Roy Mark	VoIP Providers Targeted in Rural Broadband Fund New bill seeks to make all two-way voice services contribute to a fund financing rural broadband rollout. The intent of the bill is to ensure all Americans have access to high-speed Internet.
Food Engineering August 1, 2005	Regulatory Watch USDA under increasing pressure to meet the threat of mad cow disease... Food industry representatives in Washington are promoting voluntary country-of-origin labeling guidelines, hoping to head off mandatory rules...
Registered Rep. August 1, 2005 John Churchill	The Military Needs Protection Too The House of Representatives has approved a bill that would stiffen rules governing the way mutual funds, high-cost loans and other financial products are marketed to military personnel.
U.S. Banker August 2005 Michael Dumiak	With the Whistleblower Provision, No One Wins David E. Welch, the former CFO of Virginia's Bank of Floyd, is the first person protected under Sarbanes-Oxley's whistleblower provision. His experience shows that flaws in the law put both the company and the whistleblower at risk.
Wired August 2005 John Hockenberry	The Blogs of War On the 21st-century battlefield, the campfire glow comes from a laptop. It's a real-time window on life behind the lines -- and suddenly the Pentagon is on the defensive.
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