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Reason February 2006 Nick Gillespie	If You Enjoyed Your Christmas Tree, Thank an Immigrant Immigration reform is shaping up as a key battle this legislative season. Let's make sure that President Bush and Congress know who grows their Christmas trees. And that they create a policy that welcomes all hard-working Americans, regardless of their country of origin.
Reason February 2006 Jesse James DeConto	America's Criminal Immigration Policy How U.S. law punishes hard work and fractures families.
Reason February 2006 Katherine Mangu-Ward	The Age of Corporate Environmentalism Environmental activists across the nation bought their own ties and started dealing with corporations as almost-equal partners in planet saving. Businesses in turn learned that it's pretty easy being green.
Reason February 2006 Griswold, Slivinski & Preble	Six Reasons to Kill Farm Subsidies and Trade Barriers The time is ripe for unilaterally removing America's distorting agricultural trade policies. Here's how: 1. Lower Food Prices for American Families... 2. Lower Costs and Increased Exports for American Companies... etc.
Reason February 2006 Gillespie & Cavanaugh	Artifact: The Case of the Invisible Moose Sex on TV may be multiplying like rabbits in the U.S., but so are channels that deliver child-appropriate fare.
Reason February 2006 Ronald Bailey	Good Migrations A recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research questions the American conventional wisdom that competition from immigrants invariably hurts native workers.
Reason February 2006 Julian Sanchez	Couch Potato Subsidies The Senate agreed in November to spend up to $3 billion retrofitting old television sets to guarantee that every man, woman, and child in the U.S. would be able to enjoy high-quality digital television.
Reason February 2006 Matt Welch	Fruit Use Affordable-housing advocates in New Orleans want to revive arcane terminology in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, so that -- in theory, anyway -- the 50,000 to 100,000 water-damaged properties in the area can be quickly rehabilitated by the state.
Reason February 2006 Julian Sanchez	Blowing Off Steam The American Civil Liberties Union released its analysis of 44 autopsies and death reports on detainees who died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan -- almost half were classed as homicides.
Reason February 2006 Jacob Sullum	Better Not Shop Around Internet retailing threatens to cut into the profits of the shady characters who make a living trucking cigarettes from low-tax to high-tax states. But cigarette smugglers have found an unlikely ally: New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
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