“We allow the insurance industry to run wild in this country,” President Obama declared on Monday. “We can’t have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people.” Despite this rhetoric, Senior Editor Jacob Sullum argues, Obama’s plan to tame health insurers would boost their business, protect them from competition, and guarantee their profits, all at the expense of consumers and taxpayers
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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Obama’s Fake Fight With Insurers
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The Cayman Island Sea Turtle Farm was established by entrepreneur and libertarian hero Antony Fisher in 1968. Unfortunately, the farm went bankrupt when the trade in sea turtle products was banned internationally. Now a government-owned corporation, the farm is a huge tourist attraction supplying turtle meat to the local market; it also releases thousands of turtles into the wild.
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New at Reason: Ronald Bailey on the Deliciousness of Sea Turtle Steak
From our April issue, Editor in Chief Matt Welch looks at President Barack Obama’s slippery relationship with the truth.
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New at Reason: Matt Welch on Obama’s Habit of Telling Untruths
The combination of the data-driven crime reporting system known as COMPSTAT and the aggressive policing of petty crimes known as broken windows theory has been widely credited with bringing New York City’s crime rate to its lowest point since the 1950s.
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New at Reason: Radley Balko on the NYPD, Broken Windows, and Public Choice
Among many conservatives, the rule is: Being American means never having to say you’re sorry. But as Steve Chapman explains, Obama no more deserves condemnation for recognizing our dark moments than does George W. Bush, who traveled to Latvia to publicly disavow the post-World War II deal that consigned it to the loving embrace of Josef Stalin
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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on a Sorry Complaint about Obama
…or any other corrupt New York state public official for that matter. ProPublica reports that under New York law, there’s nothing a state employee can do that’s so bad he won’t be able to collect his pension
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Don’t Cry for Gov. David Paterson
We invented the federal Highway Trust Fund in 1956, promising motorists and truckers that all proceeds from a new federal gas tax would be spent on building the interstate system.
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New at Reason: Robert Poole on Highway Funding
In the face of crushing deficits, is Washington finally serious about curbing its profligate ways? The clearest indication that the answer is “no,” writes Shikha Dalmia, is the continued existence of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. These are no-brainer cuts, Dalmia notes, not only because the original rationale behind them was daft, but because their impact is so negligible that nixing them requires no forethought.
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New at Reason: Shikha Dalmia on Cutting Federal Funding for the Arts
McDonald lawyer Alan Gura seems to have failed in his attempt to revolutionize 14th Amendment jurisprudence by reviving the Privileges or Immunities clause. However, he seems to certainly have won for his clients–and for all Americans–the basic right to exercise a core human right for self-defense.
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New at Reason: Brian Doherty on the McDonald v. Chicago Hearings
When Chicago passed a ban on handgun ownership in 1982, it was part of a trend. Washington, D.C.
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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on Chicago’s Pointless Handgun Ban
