The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are in the preliminary stages of an antitrust investigation of Apple Inc. regarding app development for the iPhone. The two agencies divide up antitrust prosecutions
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There’s Something Wrong With a World Where Apple Has a Monopoly on Anything
The New York City Police Department has halted the use of stun or “flashbang” grenades during drug raids, in part as a reaction to the 2003 death of 57-year-old Alberta Spruill, who suffered a fatal heart attack after police mistakenly raided her home. Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko writes that other police departments ought to follow suit
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New at Reason: Radley Balko on the Use of Flash Grenades During Drug Raids
• First there is a jobs bill , then there is no jobs bill, then there is . • On the anniversary of the revolution against the Shah, anti-government protests in Iran are violently repressed
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Reason Morning Links: A Shape-Shifting “Jobs” Bill, the Limits of Cell Phone Privacy, and the Menace of Arabic Flash Cards
USA Today notes : The real drivers of looming deficits are Medicare, projected to grow from $516 billion this year to $932 billion in 2018, and Social Security, forecast to grow from $581 billion this year to $966 in 2018 as Baby Boomers retire.
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News Flash: Entitlement Spending Grows Like Giant Cancer on U.S. Economy
One of the humbling things about doing politics on these here world-wide interwebs is that occasionally, in unexpected ways, you get reminded that your record-breaking traffic is somebody else’s rounding error. Jon Fleischman’s FlashReport.org is essential daily reading for countless mavens of California politics — and by "countless," I mean "many times fewer than the number of people shopping the long tail of dead-celebrity jpegs." Last night around 7pm I started to get a flurry of emails from FlashReport readers — they couldn’t get onto the website! I tried it out myself and, sure enough, it was slow as molasses…. [The] site had ground to a virtual standstill because of a massive volume of traffic coming to the site. I thought this to be a little odd, for a Thursday night..
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When Michael Stops Sneezing, California Gets A Cold
