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Big news: Taliban's No. 2 captured
FP Passport - Feb 15 21:59
The New York Times reports some huge news: U.S. and Pakistani forces have captured Mullah Baradar, the Taliban's legendary field commander and deputy of Mullah Omar. The Times says it l...
There'll be Rain on the Scarecrow, Blood on The Plow, & Even More Farm Subsidies For People Named Mellencamp
Hit & Run - Feb 15 20:43
Second-generation radical chic-ster Katrina vanden Heuvel has <a href="http://twitter.com/KatrinaNation...
Dubai Seeks 11 Europeans in Hamas Assassination Plot
Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place - Feb 15 19:50
Dubai released the images of 11 suspects in the ass...
Krugman's Inflation Incoherence
Hit & Run - Feb 15 15:21
Why is anybody still listening to Paul Krugman? Why is anybody still listening to any macroeconomist? <img alt="Every macroeconomist believes in higher prices until he's served an overpriced Belgian craft brew in a tiny glass." height="267" src="http://reason.com/assets/mc/_ATTIC/tcavanaugh/pa...
Maybe If the White House Just Repeats Its Health Care Reform Plan One More Time, Everyone Will Suddenly Like It, and It Will Pass!
Hit & Run - Feb 15 15:06
The White House has announced that it will publish a heal...
Is the New York Times ignoring "Climategate"?
FP Passport - Feb 15 15:00
Historian Walter Russell Mead dings the New York Times for allegedly not writing about the controversy over the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it...
New at Reason: Jonathan Adler on the EPA's Carbon Footprint
Hit & Run - Feb 15 12:00
From our March issue, Case Western Reserve University law professor Jonathan H. Adler reveals how federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will impose new controls on millions ...
Hot Teenage Writer + Plagiarism = 2006 All Over Again
Hit & Run - Feb 15 11:46
There's another angel in Teenage Plagiarism Heaven today. Helene Hegemann, author/curator of the German party-generation novel Axolotl Roadkill, has been busted lifting passages fr...
Your Annual President's Day Thread
Hit & Run - Feb 15 10:43
Four links for President's Day: First, Gene Healy's Reason classic "The Cult of the Presidency," adapted from his fine <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933995157/reasonmagazineA/"...
More ‘Dueling Fatwas’
Crossroads Arabia - Feb 15 10:33
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Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey! Coming March 15!
Hit & Run - Feb 15 10:23
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More on Unarmed Insurrections
Hit & Run - Feb 15 10:01
Howard Barrell, who I interviewed last week about the end of apartheid, has passed along an amendment to one of his remarks: Kurt Schock has pointed out to me -- and I accept -- that I misrepresente...
New Saudi Ban on Liquids in Carry-On
Crossroads Arabia - Feb 15 09:53
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We Won't Raid Medical Marijuana Producers . . . So Long as They Aren't Successful at It. And They Don't Talk About It.
Hit & Run - Feb 15 08:11
Last Friday, the DEA raided a medical marijuana producer in Colorado. The story needs some fleshing out, but at the moment it appears that Chris Bartkowicz wasn't violating any state law. Medical marijuana is legal in Colorado. His offense appears...
New at Reason: Steve Chapman on Barack Obama and Gun Control
Hit & Run - Feb 15 07:00
It's no stunner that after a year in office, President Barack Obama is getting hammered by people who have no use for his policy on firearms. But as Steve Chapman writes, the surprise...