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InternetNews January 30, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Fannie Mae IT Worker Indicted for Hack Attempt A contract worker at Fannie Mae has been charged with planting malicious script that would have taken down all the organization's 4,000 servers.
Investment Advisor February 2009 Melanie Waddell	Teaming Up for Change The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, the Financial Planning Association, and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards -- which have joined forces to lobby Congress on financial services reform -- christen themselves the Financial Planning Coalition.
Investment Advisor February 2009 Melanie Waddell	Mary Schapiro's Priorities Mary Schapiro tells the Senate Banking Committee what her priorities will be at the SEC.
Reason February 2009 Matt Welch	Schwarzenegger's Failure If the California governor is the face of "moderate" Republicanism, the party is even more doomed than the 2008 elections suggest.
Reason February 2009 David Weigel	Czar Wars Don't expect an Obama administration to eliminate the new post of intellectual property watchdog
Reason February 2009 Jacob Sullum	Pot Holders Rejoice Drug decriminalization -- in November, Massachusetts voters approved Question 2, a ballot initiative that eliminates criminal penalties for possessing up to an ounce of marijuana
Reason February 2009 Ronald Bailey	I Want a New Drug States that adopted new drugs more rapidly, had the smallest increases in disability rates.
Reason February 2009 David Weigel	How Big Is Small? According to an investigation by The Washington Post, at least $5 billion of the $89 billion in government contracts allegedly awarded to small businesses in 2007 went to entities that don't fit that description.
Reason February 2009 Radley Balko	Checkpoint Diego Should the courts uphold suspicionless and increasingly invasive border searches under a vague national security exception, most Americans could essentially forfeit their Fourth Amendment rights in exchange for the privilege of driving.
Reason February 2009	Quotes Comments on politics and drug raids.
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