Articles from Reason (August 1, 2009)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
25 years ago in reason.			135
A country singer can evolve.	Root, Damon		145
A teacher at Wiley Elementary School in Richland, Washington, asked students to assemble autobiographies.	Oliver, Charles		52
Bumbling big brother: what Americans can learn from the British experience with government surveillance.	Sullum, Jacob		970
California screaming: the Golden State's political class comes unglued in the face of a citizens' revolt.	Welch, Matt		1270
Cigarette gag: smokes and speech.	Sullum, Jacob		204
Correction.		Correction notice	18
Destroying jobs in order to save them: Obama's corporate tax "reforms" make a bad situation worse.	de Rugy, Veronique		1145
Disturbing the peace: on the inalienable right to "excessively noisy sex".	O'Neill, Brendan		949
DIY park repairs: community organizing.	Winkler, Jeff		205
Freedom blasters: a Chicago alderman takes on property rights and free speech.	Balko, Radley		235
Future biotech farmers of America.	Bailey, Ronald		152
Hating Milton Friedman.	Coyne, Dave; Dennis, Julie; Jones, Richard	Letter to the editor	226
Hawk in hock: Obama pretends to be frugal as we sink deeper in debt.	Sullum, Jacob		681
Horse thieves: seizing the Preakness.	Winkler, Jeff		188
Illegal. Illiberal. Ill-fated: why Washington shouldn't run Detroit.	Sullum, Jacob; Welch, Matt; Bailey, Ronald	Cover story	4604
In Indiana more than 11,000 crime victims were incorrectly notified that the criminals who victimized them were being released from prison.	Oliver, Charles		45
In Italy more than 100 people are being investigated for allegedly rigging traffic signals at intersections with stoplight cameras to increase the number of fines.	Oliver, Charles		57
It seemed like a routine traffic stop until a Brisbane, Australia, police officer ordered Chad Hastings out of his car.	Oliver, Charles		74
Judge Dred.			241
Just compensation? Testing the Takings Clause.	Balko, Radley		207
Love for hate crime laws.	Sullum, Jacob		399
Miami Vice: the rise of Florida's cocaine economy.	Grim, Ryan		449
Nativist international: Bribing immigrants to leave.	Winkler, Jeff		180
Parking pass: privatization gone wrong.	Staley, Sam		193
Quotes.			169
reason news.			136
Runaway runway: vanity stimulus.	Mangu-Ward, Katherine		210
So long, surplus: Social Security unstimulated.	Doherty, Brian		330
St. Cecilia's Catholic Church in Rochester, Pennsylvania, has sold homemade pies as part of its fish-fry fundraisers for as long as anyone can remember.	Oliver, Charles		69
Step away from the car: Rare Fourth Amendment victory.	Sullum, Jacob		354
Stuart Kennedy of Aberdeen, Scotland, has been charged with impersonating a police officer 22 times--and cleared of the charges in court 22 times.	Oliver, Charles		74
Super porn.	Doherty, Brian		167
Survival television: learning to love the vast wasteland to come.	Beato, Greg		1315
Taxing the net: sales tax cartel.	Doherty, Brian		264
The case for doing nothing: the only plausible argument for bailing out banks crumbles on close examination.	Miron, Jeffrey		2192
The city of New Orleans sent Mary Kieff 226 parking tickets in two years, with fines totaling nearly $20,000.	Oliver, Charles		103
The drug czar's high math: how phony statistics about cocaine prices hide the truth about the war on drugs.	Grim, Ryan		2426
The failure of African aid.	Moynihan, Michael C.	Interview	615
The New York City Housing Authority has banned Boston terriers from housing projects.	Oliver, Charles		37
The shifting frontiers of animal rights: activists yawn as animals lurch toward a hybrid future.	Cavanaugh, Tim		1015
Tweeting under fire: disaster researcher Jeannette Sutton explores how ordinary people create their own media during crises.	Walker, Jesse	Interview	3011
Unaccountable Obama: so much for transparency.	Balko, Radley		203
Weed control: feds make bad dealers.	Doherty, Brian		265
When do deficits matter?	Welber, David A.	Letter to the editor	273