The closer Washington gets to the labor day break, the more stories like this become news: Playboy ’s Hugh Hefner has a pet congresswoman, and now a tweet about a private fundraising lunch at the Playboy Mansion with California Rep.
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Hugh Hefner, Rep. Loretta Sanchez, the NRCC, the Playboy Mansion, and Twitter
Is that diploma you went into debt for worth the sheepskin it’s printed on? Reason Senior Editor Tim Cavanaugh will talk about the higher education bubble on Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business News show this afternoon. Time: Approx.
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Tim Cavanaugh Talks Higher Education Bubble With Cavuto on Fox Biz
Reporting from Massachusetts, Senior Editor Michael C. Moynihan profiles Republican congressional candidate Sam Meas, a refugee from the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge and the self-professed “new face of the Republican party.” View this article
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New at Reason: Michael C. Moynihan on Cambodian Refugee and Self-Described Reagan Republican Sam Meas
When President Obama made his pitch for the health care overhaul, he framed it this way: “Insurance reform; making sure that you can have choices in the marketplace for health insurance, and making it affordable for people; and reducing costs.” It was a pitch aimed at consumers: More access, more choices, lower prices. But over at InsureBlog, certified underwriter Bob Vineyard scans the health insurance market in Georgia and finds that, in the post-PPACA insurance market, there have definitely been changes—but not the ones Obama promised. From the highlight (lowlight?) reel: All but two health insurance companies have withdrawn from offering maternity benefits
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ObamaCare: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Worse
Human Events , still Ronald Reagan’s favorite publication, has interviewed Reason’s Nick Gillespie as part of Lisa De Pasquale’s ongoing feature, De Pasquale’s Dozen (for an archive, go here ). Snippets: 1.
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You’ve Seen Ocean’s Eleven. Now Experience Gillespie’s Dozen.
Did you know that World Wrestling Entertainment Heavyweight Champion “Kane” is a big fat libertarian?
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Wrestling With Libertarianism
It’s Friday and I’ll get to the litany of was-the-stimulus-too-small-dammit stories every bit as stale as the donut I just ate in a bit. But first, as the MDA Labor Day Telethon descends upon the nation like the Sphinx upon Thebes, a word from Jerry Lewis regarding America’s biggest threat to domestic tranquility. By which I mean Lindsay Lohan: “I’d smack her in the mouth if I saw her,” he offered the interviewer when asked what he’d do if he saw Lohan.
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Jerry Lewis Wants to Spank Lindsay Lohan
How to make a libertarian’s head explode : a bank bailout… in Afghanistan .
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Reason Morning Links: Scanners Edition
Via Washington Examiner columnist Mark Hemingway comes news that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who once denounced homosexual Cubans as “faggots” ( maricones ) who served the interests of imperialism, has “taken blame” for his revolution’s “excesses” against gay Cubans, which once included sending sexual counterrevolutionaries to prison camps. After offering a string of lame excuses—he was too busy thwarting American plots to stop sending his citizens to prison for being gay—Castro stopped short of actually apologizing. As Hemingway notes , Castro’s persecution of gays (and black Cubans) hardly stopped in the 1970s, as this Reuters stor y suggests, with gay bars routinely shut down by the state security service and organizers of a 2008 gay pride march thrown in jail
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A Caudillo’s Own Story
Few essays attracted as much attention from right-wing readers this summer as “America’s Ruling Class—and the Perils of Revolution” by Angelo Codevilla. Now that very long article has been expanded into a very brief book, called The Ruling Class
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New at Reason: Jesse Walker on The Ruling Class
