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Reason November 2007 Michael C. Moynihan	Free Drugs! In some states, the race for retailers to offer ever-cheaper generics is facing entrenched resistance in the form of anti-predatory pricing laws.
Reason November 2007 Brian Doherty	Let 'em Roam Despite popular prejudices to the contrary, a new paper reports that immigrants in the U.S. are far less likely to end up locked in a public institution than the native-born, with an incarceration rate one-fifth as high.
Reason November 2007 Radley Balko	Persecuted Pills Fake felonies in Florida.
Reason November 2007 Jacob Sullum	Does 21 Save Lives? A recent paper casts doubt on the widely accepted claim that setting the de facto national drinking age at 21 saves lives.
Reason November 2007 Kerry Howley	Reconstruction Mess Could anyone have predicted the failures of reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan? According to a new working paper, the public choice theorist Gordon Tullock did just that -- in 1965.
Reason November 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Begging Pardon Despite his recent decision to commute the sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, an administration official convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, George W. Bush has made remarkably little use of his clemency powers.
Reason November 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Zombie Farmers A July report from the Government Accountability Office found that the U.S. Department of Agriculture paid more than $1 billion in subsidies to 172,801 dead farmers during a six-year period.
Reason November 2007 Greg Beato	Amusing Ourselves to Depth Almost 20 years after its inception, The Onion stands as one of the newspaper industry's few great success stories in the post-newspaper era. It has focused on reporting the news. The fake news, sure, but still the news.
Reason November 2007 Nick Gillespie	Rant: Get Government Out of the Bathroom! How the GOP should respond to the Larry Craig scandal.
Reason November 2007 David Harsanyi	Prohibition Returns! Tee-totaling do-gooders attack your right to drink in America.
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