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Tom Peters on Creativity and Education
zenpundit.com - Sep 1 22:15
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Two States, One Cup
Hit & Run - Sep 1 20:09
To the many similarities between New Jersey and California -- the basic shape, the endured disapprobation of an uncompre...
California Roundup: Plastic Bags and Government Golf Cart Drivers Are Up; Illegal Immigration, Bad Surfers Are Down
Hit & Run - Sep 1 18:05
* Bankrupt city to make sure every golf cart driver is a government employee: The City of Los Angeles, after spending ...
FCC Will Figure Out What To Do About the Internet Later
Hit & Run - Sep 1 17:41
With the FCC’s September meeting just a few weeks away—it’s scheduled for S...
New Hong Kong Minimum Wage Law Makes Everyone Unhappy
Hit & Run - Sep 1 17:03
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OK, How About "Jobs Saved But Uncreated"
Hit & Run - Sep 1 16:30
Butting factoids on unemplo...
New at Reason: Katherine Mangu-Ward on Liberating Education Information
Hit & Run - Sep 1 16:30
The Los Angeles Times released performance data on 6,000 district teachers on Sunday, and it caused quite a stir. Liberating teacher performance data is a great way to start out the school y...
Malthusian Hostage Taking Addendum
Hit & Run - Sep 1 15:52
Matt Welch is on top of the Malthusian terror attack on the Discovery Channel. I did want to highlight that the instigator's first demand cites the terrible Daniel Quinn novel Ishmael as a source of inspiration: 1. Th...
Malthusian Hostage-Taker at Discovery Channel
Hit & Run - Sep 1 15:28
As those of you who have televisions or Twitters probably know, there's an armed hostage situation at Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., just across the line from Washington, D.C. Initial reports, which police officials are not confirming, are that the hostage taker is a 42-year-...
Let His Freak Flag Fly?
Hit & Run - Sep 1 15:21
On the face of it, this looks like one of the cases where the ACLU should be commended for defen...
Reason.tv: Free the 'Shine! Why It's Finally Time to Legalize Liquor
Hit & Run - Sep 1 15:00
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Skeptical Environmentalist - Still Skeptical of Carbon Rationing - Never Skeptical of Warming
Hit & Run - Sep 1 14:22
Yesterday, the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/30/bjorn-lomborg-cli...
Capitalism and the Company Town
Hit & Run - Sep 1 14:22
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, former Reason staffer Bill Kauffman reviews Hardy Green’s new book The Company Town: The Industrial Edens a...
Concern About Police Secrecy = "Tilting at Windmills"?
Hit & Run - Sep 1 14:14
My column this week was about the continuing secrecy of Virginia's largest police departments and the way the state's law enforcement community is opposing efforts to make the departments even m...
The Kook Abides
Hit & Run - Sep 1 13:26
Feeling glum about life, art, politicians, California, or all four? Then read this uplifting Wall Street Journal tale about what happens when bad art hits bad people in a badly named town. Now ther...