Crazy Public Policies


The SWAT Valley…but it’s not in Pakistan

Yesterday on the radio I heard an interview with Cheye Calvo, mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, who recounted his family’s nightmare as they were attacked by a SWAT (Special Weapons…

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Free Nick Hogan

I don’t smoke. I don’t like smoking. I hate the smell it leaves on your clothes when others smoke around you. But that doesn’t change my views about this injustice:…

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What the Hell is “Net Neutrality”?

Thanks, Reason.tv, for a clear explanation!

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Is there a Dawning Realization that the War on Drugs is a Disaster?

La Prensa San Diego on El narco: La guerra fallida by former Mexican presidential spokesperson Rubén Aguilar and political analyst and former foreign minister Jorge Castañeda: “The So-Called War on…

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Freedom of Association: It’s for Students, Too

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and the Students for Liberty have filed a joint amicus brief for freedom of association in the case of Christian Legal Society v….

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All Drug Warriors and Advocates of the Drug War: Take Note

Reason’s Jacob Sullum: “If We Make Sure We’re Not Killing Innocent People, We Might Not Get to Kill Anyone at All“

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Now We Know What Real Humor Is….Or at Least Real Jokes

Michael Moynihan of Reason has been doing some super sleuthing. He wants to know, “Just what makes something humorous?” And now he has the answer: Jonathan Chait, to whom he…

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Chait “responds,” sort of

Jonathan Chait disgraces himself once more. First he mocked Veronique de Rugy’s French name, then in his defense he makes fun of the “G” in my name, which I have…

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End of Life Choices

Some find this a difficult topic to discuss, but it’s going to happen to all of us (well, probably), so it’s childish to avoid it. Yes, I’m discussing death. Jamie…

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Making Us “Safer” When We Travel

All a part of the U.S. government’s plans to make travel impossible and life unbearable.

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