The National Institute for Retirement Security’s ” Out of Balance? ” study — which I discussed earlier today and which was the source of much debate back in May — should not be allowed to escape into the memory hole. The study’s major claim — that public employees are at par with or slightly below private sector counterparts when you control for their higher levels of education — becomes less persuasive the longer you look at it

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Their Needs Are More, So They Give Less
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From a Wall Street Journal interview : Q: What did you think of Rand Paul’s initial statements about the Civil Rights Act, that the government should not tell private businesses they can’t discriminate?
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Gary Johnson Distances Himself From Libertarianism
Based at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby are two pioneers and leading lights in the field of evolutionary psychology. This multidisciplinary approach seeks to develop a better understanding of human nature by taking seriously the idea that our brains evolved to solve a variety of adaptive problems routinely faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors
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Reason.tv: Stone Age Minds – A conversation with evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
“Science and religion are not in contradiction, they don’t need to be,” says Dr. Francisco J.
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Reason.tv Replay: From Priest to Scientist – An Interview with Dr. Francisco J. Ayala
In 2003 Reason named C-SPAN Founder and CEO Brian Lamb one of our 35 Heroes of Freedom for “turning a surveillance camera on the den of iniquity known as the U.S. House of Representatives.” Lamb sat down with Reason.tv editor Nick Gillespie for a wide-ranging — and distinctively non-stoned faced — discussion about the network, his views on politics, and a possible alternate career choice as a drummer for Merle Haggard
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Recently at Reason.tv: C-SPAN Founder and CEO Brian Lamb Interview
In 2003 Reason named C-SPAN Founder and CEO Brian Lamb one of our 35 Heroes of Freedom for “turning a surveillance camera on the den of iniquity known as the U.S. House of Representatives.” Lamb sat down with Reason.tv editor Nick Gillespie for a wide-ranging — and distinctively non-stoned faced — discussion about the network, his views on politics, and a possible alternate career choice as a drummer for Merle Haggard
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Reason.tv: C-SPAN Founder and CEO Brian Lamb Interview
The Price Is Right host and Reason Foundation Board Member Drew Carey and Reason.tv Editor in Chief Nick Gillespie met with the Cleveland City Council yesterday to discuss our Reason Saves Cleveland series.
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Drew Carey, Nick Gillespie, and the Cleveland City Council Moving Forward
This week, Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko discussed SWAT teams and police militarization on Russia TV’s The Alyona Show.
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Reason Writers on the Air: Radley Balko Discusses SWAT Teams and Police Millitarization on Russia Today