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Reason January 2008 Jacob Sullum	Bad Touch TSA screeners are overburdened with ineffective rules and regulations and miss real threats.
Reason January 2008 Brian Doherty	Bloomberg's Folly New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has gotten some blowback for his attempt to hold stores responsible for the actions of gun-toting criminals, most of whom get their weapons in the black market, not directly from stores. Two stores have filed countersuits.
Reason January 2008 Kerry Howley	Verification Nation Immigration data mess: The DHS recently renewed its push for E-Verify, a 10-year-old federal program that employers can use to check the immigration status of potential new hires against federal databases, which may or may not be accurate.
Reason January 2008 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Marital Woes Defrocked eMinisters: The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is considering legislation that would exclude ministers from performing weddings if their churches offer ordinations by mail or through electronic means.
Reason January 2008 Radley Balko	Pants Police Organizers in Atlanta, Detroit, Nashville, and Birmingham have all staged anti-sagging rallies, where high-waistline activists hand out belts to saggy-pants offenders. Now, many cities are considering their own droopy-drawers prohibitions.
Reason January 2008 Jacob Sullum	Data: High Risk Overall, marijuana arrests in the U.S. have increased more than 150% since 1990.
Reason January 2008 David Weigel	Bonds for Babies Democrats discover the Ownership Society: Even if they don't replace the current Social Security system, "baby bonds" could have a transformative political effect in the U.S.
Reason January 2008 Greg Beato	Where's the Beef? Thank McDonald's for keeping you thin. It's easy to forget that before America fell in love with cheap, convenient, standardized junk food, it loved cheap, convenient, independently deep-fried junk food.
Reason January 2008 Matt Welch	Rant: Burn the Rich One would think that the creation of supplementary firefighting capability -- the costs of which are borne entirely by the homeowners who choose to live in fire zones -- would be a cause for at least mild enthusiasm. Instead, it was greeted with howls of class warfare.
AFP eWire January 21, 2008	Newlyweds Forego Wedding Gifts, Request Donations Newlyweds from Georgia deleted their entire wedding registry and instead requested family and friends to make donations to The Save Darfur Coalition.
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