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Reason November 2005 Matt Welch	"Like Undermining Motherhood and Apple Pie" Why are California Democrats in local government embracing eminent domain abuse?
Reason November 2005 Jacob Sullum	Freedom Riders How motorcyclists in America won the right to feel the wind in their hair -- and why drivers still have to buckle up.
Reason November 2005 Nick Gillespie	Remembering Roger Williams What the father of Rhode Island can still teach us about freedom of religion, and the freedom of speech and of the press that follow from it.
Reason November 2005 Jacob Sullum	Do Movies Cause Smoking? While claims that exposure to smoking in movies and advertising causes 86% of smoking in the U.S. are absurd, there's an unstated premise that's even more offensive: that every filmmaker should make his work conform to the dictates of the health nannies.
Reason November 2005 Matt Welch	Rummy's Posse The main thrust of an 1878 law -- keeping the four fighting branches of the military away from American citizens -- has stood firm. Until now.
Reason November 2005 Tim Cavanaugh	Subsidized Spin The Pentagon is spending $300,000 to send mid-career scientists, researchers, and engineers to a workshop at the television and screen writing school with the hope that some of these scientists will be inspired to produce a screenplay that paints scientists as cool.
Reason November 2005 Jacob Sullum	Ice, Ice Baby Stigmatizing terms, such as `ice babies' and `meth babies,' lack scientific validity and should not be used, said a group of nearly 100 physicians, researchers, and addiction specialists in an open letter to the news media.
Reason November 2005 Jacob Sullum	Illegal Settlement Fighting the cigarette cartel: Regarding the 1998 agreement that settled 46 state lawsuits against the four major tobacco companies, the states got payments totaling more than $200 billion during the first 25 years; the tobacco companies got protection from liability and competition; and consumers got the bill.
Reason November 2005 Ted Balaker	Domestic Outsourcing The Sioux aren't the only Native Americans benefiting from the domestic outsourcing boom; at four reservations in Utah, startups have created more than 150 jobs and are bringing in millions of dollars in revenue.
Reason November 2005 Kerry Howley	Data: Whose Living Wage? A study by a nonpartisan think tank, suggests that while living wage laws in America do tend to reduce overall poverty, they hurt those who can least afford it.
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