The assumptions baked into a familiar phrase
Jesse Walker
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3.15.2015
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The latest economic nonsense from the mayor of New York City.
Ira Stoll
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3.16.2015
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The limits of the emerging doc fix deal.
Peter Suderman
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3.16.2015
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Zero tolerance: Virginia school officials stand by their wrongful expulsion of an 11-year-old boy.
Robby Soave
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3.16.2015
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Indian tribes mull marijuana business opportunities.
Jacob Sullum
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3.16.2015
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Paul Detrick
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3.15.2015
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At least 15 people were killed in the suicide bombings, leading to Christian protests around Pakistan.
Ed Krayewski
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3.15.2015
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Seeing dark omens of catastrophe in new tech demos.
Robin Hanson
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3.03.2015
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How science fiction androids became real-life machines.
Peter Suderman
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3.03.2015
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How refreshing it would be for someone to set forth the strongest case for libertarianism before attempting to eviscerate it.
Sheldon Richman
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3.15.2015
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Closing sites like Backpage.com puts trafficking victims at even more risk.
Noah Berlatsky
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3.14.2015
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"The free market is suddenly hip on the farm again."
Baylen Linnekin
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3.14.2015
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Peter Suderman
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3.13.2015
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Remy & Meredith Bragg
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3.13.2015
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Economic Super-cycles and Falling Commodity Prices
Ronald Bailey
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3.13.2015
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'What I'm here to tell you is that on campus we have additional rules other than just freedom of speech,' said the cop.
Robby Soave
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3.13.2015
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Foreign airlines and oil companies top list of recipients.
Veronique de Rugy
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3.13.2015
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3.03.2015
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Costly contract provisions from the state attorney general are making it more difficult for a hospital to be sold, and saved.
Steven Greenhut
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3.13.2015
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Strange tales from the church of Xenu, and the secret weapon of ’60s rock.
Kurt Loder
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3.13.2015
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It's a play fake that never fails.
Steve Chapman
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3.12.2015
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Despite the generous treatment she's received from the media, Hillary has never been an especially electrifying or potent political power.
David Harsanyi
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3.13.2015
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Chip Bok
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3.13.2015
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Some Muslims in the Middle East insist the Islamic State is an Israeli-funded project despite any evidence that would suggest that.
Charles Paul Freund
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3.12.2015
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A school is exactly the kind of place where evil views should do battle with moral and logical views.
Robby Soave
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3.12.2015
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New net neutrality rules give the agency veto power over ISP innovations.
Peter Suderman
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3.12.2015
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The fantasy author whose Discworld novels talked up liberty and self-ownership has died at 66.
Scott Shackford
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3.12.2015
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As a bonus, a few of the measures will also put women and abortion doctors in more danger.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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3.12.2015
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Q and A with author David Skarbek.
Nick Gillespie & Anthony L. Fisher
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3.12.2015
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If anything can persuade Iran’s rulers to go for a nuke, it’s these hardliners’ lust for war.
Sheldon Richman
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3.12.2015
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Kentucky's junior senator courts the hawks.
Jesse Walker
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3.11.2015
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Freshman Sen. Tom Cotton wants to invade Iran and Syria, jail journalists and whistleblowers, eavesdrop on Americans, and keep the 'savages' locked up in Gitmo.
Matt Welch
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3.11.2015
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What's the state's interest in this boy's foreskin?
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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3.11.2015
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Mr. President, are you not troubled that your secretary of state had a non-secure email account and used it for all of her work?
Andrew Napolitano
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3.12.2015
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Which company got the most targeted tax breaks, subsidies, and grants in the state where you live?
Jason Keisling & Nick Gillespie
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3.11.2015
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Will sexbots make human life better, creepier, or both?
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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3.03.2015
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When government tries to make a free world "fairer" it just gets worse.
John Stossel
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3.11.2015
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But the director's pc plea that rape is a global problem trivializes the violence Indian women confront
Shikha Dalmia
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3.11.2015
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Cities throw tax money at big deals while small businesses get the shaft for stupid reasons.
A. Barton Hinkle
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3.11.2015
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They're sweeping my floors, watching my kids, and stealing my job. Here's why I'm not worried.
Katherine Mangu-Ward
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3.03.2015
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The rigged process that exonerated the cop who shot Michael Brown highlights the need for independent prosecutors.
Jacob Sullum
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3.11.2015
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The CARERS Act would eliminate federal interference with patients and providers.
Jacob Sullum
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3.10.2015
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Yet just a few weeks ago, she said she used two different phones.
Peter Suderman
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3.10.2015
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Brazen, impulsive, unconstitutional
Robby Soave
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3.10.2015
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Nick Gillespie & Robert Mariani
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3.10.2015
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Rand Paul continues trying to thread the needle with "private contract" argument.
Scott Shackford
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3.10.2015
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Underage teens having sex is awkward, but it shouldn't be criminal.
Robby Soave
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3.10.2015
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Peter Suderman
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3.10.2015
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The court's job is to enforce the law as written, not fix it
Shikha Dalmia
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3.10.2015
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How the press turned a local issue into the first controversy of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Matt Welch
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3.10.2015
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Neither survey calls nor media and police reports capture the importance of private gun ownership.
Brian Doherty
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3.09.2015
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The Wisconsin governor has shown courage under fire from organized labor and its allies.
Ira Stoll
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3.09.2015
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The new watch from Cupertino will help reduce income inequality in the way that really matters.
Jim Epstein
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3.09.2015
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Flood the streets with kids.
Lenore Skenazy
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3.09.2015
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The feds find that the witnesses who made Wilson look the worst were the worst witnesses.
Jacob Sullum
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3.09.2015
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The conduct of these students is truly despicable, and it will rightly haunt them for a very long time.
Robby Soave
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3.09.2015
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Jihadi John is nothing new.
A. Barton Hinkle
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3.09.2015
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Capital punishment fails the "conservative litmus test."
Anthony L. Fisher
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3.09.2015
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Republican presidential candidates find a way to achieve a tricky balance.
Jacob Sullum
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3.09.2015
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Bacteria can evolve. Maybe federal policymakers can as well, before it's too late.
Steve Chapman
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3.09.2015
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Drug addiction is not caused by the effects of drugs alone.
Stanton Peele
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3.08.2015
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Under French law, insulting people based on their religion is a crime punishable by six months in jail.
3.08.2015
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"Forget self and think of America," wartime pundits urged.
Sheldon Richman
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3.08.2015
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A show that was once darkly great has descended into prosaic moralism. God save us from fictional pols who are serious about jobs programs.
Nick Gillespie
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3.07.2015
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Will Brown v. Plata bring mass incarceration to an end?
Sara Mayeux
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3.07.2015
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Automation needn't be scary for workers, but for traditional unions, the robot future may hold a different fate.
Greg Jones
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3.07.2015
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To grant the state the authority to police hatred is to open the door to the policing of thought, conscience, and morality.
Brendan O'Neill
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3.07.2015
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Clinton's behavior shows that her only priority is herself.
Peter Suderman
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3.06.2015
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The U.S. is now on a path that will enable a force that openly threatens Jews to become far more powerful and dangerous.
David Harsanyi
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3.06.2015
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Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig argues that sentencing reform "won't work" without more welfare spending.
Jacob Sullum
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3.06.2015
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"Everything that can be decentralized, will be decentralized."
Ronald Bailey
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3.06.2015
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Nick Gillespie
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3.06.2015
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You know who else has a judicial system that is hard to fight and extracts money from citizens?
Scott Shackford
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3.06.2015
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State bill targets university's 'believe it or not' edict.
Steven Greenhut
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3.06.2015
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Journalists and prisoners stage a First Amendment challenge to state secrecy regarding executions.
Anthony L. Fisher
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3.06.2015
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A sci-fi misfire from Neill Blomkamp.
Kurt Loder
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3.06.2015
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Chip Bok
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3.06.2015
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Hypocrisy confirmed.
Robby Soave
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3.05.2015
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The blurry line between men and machines
Jesse Walker
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3.03.2015
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The agency's new Internet rules will only make the Web worse.
Peter Suderman
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3.05.2015
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Showrunner says Paul bailed at the last minute.
Robby Soave
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3.05.2015
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Arms control tends to bring out unwarranted panic and fury, and Netanyahu is squarely in that tradition.
Steve Chapman
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3.05.2015
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The recording artist says capturing the feel of a song, or an era, isn't the same as infringing on a copyright.
Ed Krayewski
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3.05.2015
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Netanyahu’s narrative is a fabric of lies and omissions.
Sheldon Richman
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3.05.2015
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When the president effectively writes the laws, Congress is effectively neutered.
Andrew Napolitano
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3.05.2015
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Is the government's position "gobbledygook?"
Nick Gillespie & Joshua Swain
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3.04.2015
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Levels are about the same as those found in air.
Jacob Sullum
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3.04.2015
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Ed Krayewski
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3.04.2015
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Why not all 'outsiders' are built the same, and how that might benefit Ted Cruz.
Matt Welch
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3.04.2015
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Sharp questions for both sides. Kennedy and Roberts likely hold the deciding votes.
Damon Root
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3.04.2015
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Paul Detrick
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3.03.2015
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The administration's case is little more than a request for legal permission to rewrite the law.
Peter Suderman
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3.04.2015
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The oft-repeated claim that rape is so common that there is a "rape culture" in the U.S. is utter exaggeration.
John Stossel
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3.04.2015
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Laws against panhandling are unconstitutional, yet officials keep trying.
A. Barton Hinkle
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3.04.2015
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Ted Balaker
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3.04.2015
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Unless we want to drown future generations in a sea of red ink, we need to have a serious conversation about the future of entitlements.
Michael Tanner
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2.06.2015
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A federal appeals court gives a pass to unconstitutional harassment by border cops.
Jacob Sullum
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3.04.2015
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Attacking Paul's insufficiently enthusiastic applause for Netanyahu is symbolic of a continuing problem he has with elements of the American Right.
Brian Doherty
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3.03.2015
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Jim Epstein & Naomi Brockwell
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3.03.2015
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Jason Keisling & Stephanie Slade
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3.03.2015
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A task force on upgrading policing tactics calls for more guidelines, more training, more spending, but lacks introspection on the state of our laws.
Scott Shackford
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3.03.2015
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What women need is a broad progressive agenda, not identity politics
Shikha Dalmia
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3.03.2015
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Watch out Millennials! Baby Boomers are out for blood.
Ronald Bailey
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2.06.2015
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Breaking the law doesn't come with the same consequences for government officials as it does for the rest of us.
Ed Krayewski
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3.02.2015
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The tricky geopolitics of tumbling demand and rising supply
Ronald Bailey
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3.03.2015
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They warned us for years, "Don't drink and drive." Now it's, "Don't drink and fuck."
Brendan O'Neill
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3.01.2015
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Welcome to the intersection of common sense and bureaucratic craziness
Lenore Skenazy
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3.02.2015
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The left gets a lesson in basic economics.
A. Barton Hinkle
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3.02.2015
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Peter Suderman
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3.02.2015
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Paul Detrick & Joshua Swain
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3.02.2015
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Supporters tout the benefits for just the few, when actually we all gain.
Bill Watson
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3.02.2015
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New regulations proposed to make squishy soft playground surfaces even softer.
Lenore Skenazy
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3.02.2015
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The Supreme Court prepares for another legal showdown over Obamacare.
Damon Root
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3.02.2015
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Despite a prohibitionist tantrum, pot is legal in the nation's capital.
Jacob Sullum
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3.02.2015
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Posted to Facebook, where the police commission president saw it. An officer is heard yelling drop the gun but it's unclear if the man had one.
Ed Krayewski
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3.01.2015
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The strange powerlessness of the "most powerful man in the world"
Gene Healy
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3.01.2015
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The War of 1812 helped "the State come into its own" by concentrating power and interest in the national government.
Sheldon Richman
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3.01.2015
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Paul Detrick & Joshua Swain
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2.28.2015
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Nick Gillespie
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2.28.2015
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The northern California city of nearly 300,000 has become a key test case on whether cities can reduce their unaffordable public pensions when they head into bankruptcy court
Steven Greenhut
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2.06.2015
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Matt Welch & Todd Krainin
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2.28.2015
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The Chicago Police Department didn't need the War on Terror to teach it to violate civil rights.
Noah Berlatsky
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2.28.2015
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A panel of government-appointed experts has recommended new food taxes, eating less meat, restricting food marketing, and banning some food at the local level.
Baylen Linnekin
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2.28.2015
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A day before a planned opposition rally
Scott Shackford
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2.27.2015
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Self-censorship in the face of intimidation has another name: cowardice.
Ronald Bailey
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2.27.2015
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Nick Gillespie
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2.26.2015
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Nick Gillespie
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2.27.2015
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Could Frank Underwood Beat Vladimir Putin? Bitch, Please.
Austin Bragg
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2.27.2015
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They were "missing" much like a box shoved in a closet is "missing."
Scott Shackford
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2.27.2015
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State’s rigid overtime rules squelch choice and innovation while politically connected unions are exempt.
Steven Greenhut
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2.27.2015
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