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Taken 2, The Paperboy, and Pitch Perfect
Dreck, sex and music.
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What Mitt Romney Really Believes
In the first presidential debate, the candidate reveals his core convictions.
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Why U.S. Health Care Costs More Than Canada's: "A Mercedes Costs More than a Corolla"
Q&A with the Montreal Economic Institute's Michel Kelly-Gagnon
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Debate Exposes Obama's Ridiculous Tax Myth
Blaming tax cuts for a recession is a contention so ridiculous that even a fake economic study doesn't exist to prove it.
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Romney Won the Debate, But Will the Country Lose?
Mitt Romney's and Barack Obama's visions for government are more alike than different.
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CNN Poll: 67 Percent of Debate Watchers Say Romney Won
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Virtual Children, Genome Sequencing for Everyone, and Forget Genetic Privacy
Ronald Bailey sends his first dispatch from the Fourth Annual Consumer Genetics Conference
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The Failures of Obama and Romney
President Obama is a failure as a president, and Gov. Romney is a failure as a candidate.
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Citizenship Denied: DOMA, Immigration, and Gay Marriage
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Libertarian Gary Johnson Should Win the Election
But What Good Will That Do Him?
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Your Vote Doesn't Count
Why (almost) everyone should stay home on Election Day
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Daily Caller Race Vid? Huh? What Part of 8 Percent Unemployment Don't Republicans Understand?
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Atlas Shrugged Part II: What We Saw at the World Premiere in D.C.!
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Slandering Muhammad Is Not a Crime
Obama undermines his defense of free speech by pandering to Muslim rioters.
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The 6 Biggest Debate Promises Obama Failed to Keep
Warm up for tomorrow night's empty promises with some of 2008's forgotten pledges.
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Half of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
A review of The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman.
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Open up the Debates!
Johnson's on the ballot in some 47 states, and he's registered more than 5 percent support in some national polls. But he's locked out of the debates.
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Read Our Complete October 2012 Issue!
The insatiable taxman, debt ceiling fight club, the recovery that wasn't, and more.
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Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Immigrants
The politics of nativism in the Grand Canyon State
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How Local Governments Are Chipping Away at the First Amendment
That Amendment is unequivocal when it states that Congress shall make no law. Lesser government powers can make as many as they like.
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Jerry Brown's Vetoes and the Limits of Progressivism
Sometimes the most important thing a governor can do is to say “no.”
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Obama vs Romney: You Decide Who "Wins" Nanny of the Month! (Special interactive election edition)
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Will Pot Become Legal?
Weed would remain illegal under federal law, but good luck to the feds trying to enforce that ban if a state abandons it.
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Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore on the 2012 Election
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San Francisco’s Darkest Hours
The founder of Salon takes a fascinating tour of the Golden Gate City, 1967–82.
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The Foreign Policy Hubris of Romney and Obama
”Folly and presumption” seem apt words for anyone who proclaims that he can shape events—that is, people’s lives—in the Middle East.
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Wake the F*ck Up! (A Rebuttal)
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The Latest Misguided Attack on Sugary Drinks
Wheat, soy, dairy, and seafood make some people sick. Should we tax or ban those foods as a result?
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Obama's Dismal Record on Foreign Policy
The Nobel Peace Prize winner has not earned his award.
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Won't Back Down
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis team up in Hollywood's latest implausible school reform flick
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Steve Horwitz on Austrian Economics, Family, and Bleeding Heart Libertarians
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California’s Failed Policies Are Driving Away Businesses and Residents
The Golden State needs to mend its ways before it’s too late.
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Gary Johnson Gains Support And May Take Ohio Out of Play for Romney
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The GOP Needs More Libertarianism, Not Less
New York Times columnist David Brooks is wrong to worry about the influence of “economic conservatives.”
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Looper
Bruce Willis stars in a vivid time-travel thriller.
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring at 50 Years
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70 Percent of Americans Favor Auditing the Federal Reserve
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As Goes Ohio, So Goes the Nation or, Happy 2nd Term, President Obama!
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The Age of the Infographic
Charts, graphs, and timelines in the post-newspaper world
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The GOP's Environmental Disaster
The forgotten legacy of Russell Train.
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Immigrants DREAM on: Neither Obama nor Romney will help you
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The Streetcar Swindle
It’s time to rethink America’s retrograde love affair with trolley technology.
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The Arab Spring Becomes a Western Winter
Is the Arab Middle East ready for democracy? We know how the past two American presidents have answered this.
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3 Reasons the Obama Administration Didn't Want to Admit Benghazi was a Terrorist Attack
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Last Resort: Sailing into America’s Post-Post-9/11 World
New series explores our current cultural dichotomy of defiance and authoritarianism.
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Denial of Medical Choice: Even Worse Than Activists Think
Abortion advocates fear government bureaucrats could use burdensome rules to reduce access to medical care. That's happening already.
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Strangulation by Union
Rules that “protect” government workers from arbitrary dismissal and require everyone be treated equally are bad for taxpayers and even unions.
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The Marijuana Rebellion
State ballot initiatives aimed at legalizing pot pose a new challenge to prohibition.
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Silent Spring's 50-Year History of Selective Data
Rachel Carson, more than any other person, created the politicized science that afflicts today's public policy debates.
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Cyberbullying Law Threatens Student Speech in North Carolina
You can't say that about school officials on the Internet!
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Remy: Imagine (There's No YouTube)
Remy imagines a world where politicians cave to angry mobs and dictate what we can see on YouTube.
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The NFL's Bureaucratic Breakdown
Bad call in Green Bay/Seattle game was the result of an anti-competitive cartel that is getting worse.
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President Obama Says We "must" Condemn "those who slander the prophet of Islam," Among Others
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Losing the War in Afghanistan
War is hell, and so is bureaucracy.
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Markets vs. Morals?
The mistaken worry that money and morality are at odds
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Obama's Fact-Challenged Tax Claim
Where are the “fact-checkers” when you need them?
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Boob Over Bottle: Mike Bloomberg's Latest Nanny State Dictate
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Is the Age of the Publicly Funded Sports Arena Drawing to a Close?
The past few decades have seen an increase in public underwriting of sports arenas, but attitudes may be shifting.
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