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Czar wars: intellectual property watchdog
AMERICANS aren't just getting a new president this year. We're getting a new czar. On October 13, President George W. Bush signed the Prioritizing...
Reason, 02/01/09 by David Weigel · More from publication -
How big is small? Federal contracting scam
LOCKHEED MARTIN doesn't fit most people's definition of a small business. The defense contractor has 140,000 employees, and in 2007 it netted $3...
Reason, 02/01/09 by David Weigel · More from publication -
Where did it all go wrong? A thrilling and dispiriting year for libertarian politics
ON THE AFTERNOON of July 6, 2007, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas emerged from his taxi to what was becoming a shockingly familiar sight: Dozens of fans...
Reason, 02/01/09 by David Weigel · More from publication -
Kentucky Reign: state-owned gambling domains
IN 2007 Democrat Steve Beshear was elected governor of Kentucky after pledging to expand state-run gambling. Once in office, Beshear found that...
Reason, 01/01/09 by David Weigel · More from publication -
Beat the new boss: D.C. libertarians plot their Obama administration strategies
FOUR YEARS AGO, after the re-election of George W. Bush, the Permanent Republican Majority had finally taken over. Grover Norquist of Americans for...
Reason, 01/01/09 by David Weigel · More from publication -
Empire bloat: bases, bases everywhere
THE DEFENSE Department's 2008 Base Structure Report reveals just how far the military has spread across the globe. As of last summer, the Pentagon...
Reason, 12/01/08 by David Weigel · More from publication -
Yellow peril: racist stare decisis
WHEN THE United States went to war against Japan in 1941' Congress passed a law commanding Japanese Americans to stay inside after dusk. Two years...
Reason, 12/01/08 by David Weigel · More from publication -
Atlas blinked: fiscally conservative Republicans were lost at sea in the Panic of 2008
EVERY WEDNESDAY in Washington, conservatives gather in the conference room of Grover Norquist's pressure group, Americans for Tax Reform, to hash...
Reason, 12/01/08 by David Weigel · More from publication -
Card sharks: gift certificate rights?
WHEN MICHIGAN state Rep. Fred Miller (D-Mount Clemens) got married in 2003, he received more gift cards than he knew what to do with. "I didn't...
Reason, 11/01/08 by David Weigel · More from publication -
Divided in Nevada: in America's most libertarian state, libertarians don't know how they'll vote
IT'S GETTING HARDER to find remnants of Ron Paul's remarkable presidential campaign at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch. But they're still there. On the...
Reason, 11/01/08 by David Weigel · More from publication
