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Reason January 2009 Brian Doherty |
Baloney Ballistics Gun databases fail. Devoting so much record keeping to every gun sold guarantees wasted effort, since less than 1 percent of all guns sold will ever be used in a crime.  |
Reason January 2009 Radley Balko |
Death by SWAT Collateral raid damage -- a surprisingly high percentage of raids produce neither drugs nor weapons.  |
Reason January 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Soap Scum The state of Washington has ordered local governments to ban driveway car washing. Most storm drains in the Pacific Northwest are separate from sewers and dump water directly into streams and rivers without processing.  |
Reason January 2009 |
Anti-Government Superheroes In October Reason asked Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown to list three lessons about liberty to be gleaned from comics.  |
Reason January 2009 David Weigel |
Kentucky Reign In 2007 Democrat Steve Beshear was elected governor of Kentucky after pledging to expand state-run gambling. Once in office, Beshear found that competition from online gambling was a huge obstacle.  |
Reason January 2009 Brian Doherty |
Sarbanes-Oxley Revisited Recent academic studies of Sarbanes-Oxley have deepened our understanding of the law's effects.  |
Reason January 2009 Jacob Sullum |
Obama's Job Fetish Why the government shouldn't view "creating jobs" as an end in itself  |
Reason January 2009 David Weigel |
Beat the New Boss D.C. libertarians plot their Obama administration strategies.  |
Reason January 2009 Veronique de Rugy |
Bush's Regulatory Kiss-Off Obama's assertions to the contrary, the 43rd president was the biggest regulator since Nixon.  |
Reason January 2009 Tim Cavanaugh |
The End Is Near Why does the land of plenty love dystopias? The late Frank Zappa's rock opera Joe's Garage now rises to that rare stratosphere of works applauded for their prescience when the future itself arrives.  |
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