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Since the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects people’s freedom to talk about politics, even when they are organized as corporations and even when an election is approaching, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig has been tinkering with the Constitution in his legal workshop. Here is the result : Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to restrict the power to limit, though not to ban, campaign expenditures of non-citizens of the United States during the last 60 days before an election

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Larry Lessig’s ‘Simple’ Solution to Excessive Speech

From our April issue, Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie discuss drugs, economics, and politics with former New Mexico governor and possible presidential candidate Gary Johnson. View this article

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New at Reason: Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie Interview Gary Johnson

The Post ’s headline —”House may try to pass Senate health care bill without voting on it”—tells you all you really need to know about the what of House Democrats’ procedural strategy via the Slaughter Rule (which I explained in greater detail here ). But it doesn’t tell you much about the why .  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explains that she “like[s] it because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.” And presumably that’s what anxious legislators who might want to vote for reform but don’t like the Senate bill are thinking too.

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Pelosi on Democrats’ Likely Health Care Procedure: “I like it because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.”

On March 4, 2010, Jacob Sullum, Nick Gillespie and Virginia Postrel appeared on a special episoode of  Fox Business Network’s Stossel devoted to prohibition to discuss drug laws, ridiculous media scare stories, and legalizing markets in human organs. Approximately 30 minutes. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable iPod and audio versions

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Reasoners on The Tube: Jacob Sullum, Nick Gillespie, & Virginia Postrel Talking Drugs, Media Hysteria, and Human Organ Markets on Very Special…

Angry small business owners are, again , taking the shizzle out of Yelp.com, the customer review site alleged to be “highly popular.” A Long Beach, California veterinarian has sued the company over Yelp’s high-pressure sales pitches, which included manipulation of negative review rankings. Wired has the story and the court filing [ pdf ]. We begin with the wrath of Gregory Perrault, owner of Dogs and Cats Hospital, over a negative review of his business..

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Yelp Extortion Case: Does a Company “Mantra” Have Legal Weight?

From our April issue, Anthony Randazzo explains why the White House’s claims that the economy is on the mend don’t add up.

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New at Reason: Anthony Randazzo on the Myth of the Recovery

A great post from Robert Wright at the New York Times about why the disproportionate attention paid to Toyota recalls is worrisome and innumerate: if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems and don’t bother to comply with the recall, your chances of being involved in a fatal accident over the next two years because of the unfixed problem are a bit worse than one in a million—2.8 in a million, to be more exact. Meanwhile, your chances of being killed in a car accident during the next two years just by virtue of being an American are one in 5,244.

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You Might Die in Your Toyota. It Happens.

When men like Joe Stack and John Bedell launch their kamikaze attacks, you won’t learn much by trying to discern if the would-be killers are “right-wing” or “left-wing,” writes Managing Editor Jesse Walker. They have less in common with the organized right or left than they do with George Metesky’s one-man bombing campaign against Con Edison, Samuel Byck’s feckless attempt to assassinate Richard Nixon, or the Luddite crusade of the Unabomber.

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New at Reason: Jesse Walker on Lone Wolves

There seems to be growing optimism among some Republicans that if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finagles the votes to pass Obamacare, the GOP triumphantly will sweep into power and immediately repeal it.

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New at Reason: David Harsanyi on the GOP Repealing ObamaCare