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Reason January 2006 Brian Doherty	You Can Be Too Careful How the U.S. government's new corporate accounting rules impede efficiency and stifle innovation.
Reason January 2006 John Berlau	Sarbanes-Oxley vs. the Free Press How the U.S. government used business regulations to strong-arm the media.
Reason January 2006 Jeff A. Taylor	The Gentle Persuader The Fed should be moving to a neutral stance on rates just as Greenspan leaves, which buys Bernanke time. But sooner or later the business cycle pendulum will swing back; it will be time to ease.
Reason January 2006 Gene Healy	Geena Davis Is Not My President The bipartisan romance with the imperial presidency comes to prime time. If Commander in Chief is worth watching at all, it's for what it tells us about modern, popular views of presidential power.
Reason January 2006 Matt Welch	Sorry, Wrong Number Under the PATRIOT Act, the FBI has unprecedented authority to eavesdrop on all phone and Internet communications of individual American citizens, as long as agents obtain approval from a secret court.
Reason January 2006 Julian Sanchez	Don't Ask, Yet The imperative to keep American troops ready for deployment shows up in historically low levels of expulsion of homosexual soldiers from the military during wartime.
Reason January 2006 Kerry Howley	Byrd Watching Of the $1 billion meted out under the 2000 Byrd amendment to an agricultural appropriations bill, the GAO found two-thirds went to three industries; half went to five corporations.
Reason January 2006 Jacob Sullum	Takings, Take 2 State courts, where the battle over eminent domain is now shifting, don't necessarily agree with the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 ruling in Kelo v. New London.
Reason January 2006 Tim Cavanaugh	Kentucky School Days Faced with rising fuel costs and flat school budgets, a Kentucky county has begun playing hooky one day a week. Should public school administrators be proud or ashamed that students who stay home one day a week appear to be doing as well as full-timers?
Reason January 2006 Ted Balaker	Mistakes Will Be Made NASA announced its new spending spree while Congress was scrambling for money to put the Gulf Coast back together.
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