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Did you know that World Wrestling Entertainment Heavyweight Champion “Kane” is a big fat libertarian?

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Wrestling With Libertarianism

The good news is that yesterday’s Malthusian terror attack on the Discovery Channel headquarters ended with only the death of the perpetrator, James Jay Lee. But what motivated this assault

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Malthusian Terrorist Product of a Green Climate of Hate?

During his summer vacation, Barack Obama had an guesstimated $20,000 makeover done to the Oval Office in the White House (all paid for by donations). The attention-getter so far?

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The Five Quotes on the New Oval Office Rug

On Aug. 27, I talked to our friendly neighborhood Russkies about stadium welfare for lying billioniare baseball owners. Approximately 5.58322 minutes

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Reason Writers on TV: Matt Welch Talks Stadium Swindleage on Russia Today

* School’s in for teachers: Los Angeles Times debuts its “value-added” database of L.A. Unified School District teachers.

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California Roundup: Teachers Want Better Information As Long As Nobody’s Allowed to See It

On August 28, 2010, Fox News host  Glenn Beck  held his ” Restoring Honor ” rally at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The aim of the event, explained the lachrymose TV personality, was to “come celebrate America by honoring our heroes, our heritage and our future.” As the  Washington Post  reports, “For too long, this country has wandered in darkness, and we have wandered in darkness in periods from the beginning,” Beck said, at times pacing at the memorial. “We have had moments of brilliance and moments of darkness.

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Reason.tv: What We Saw at the Glenn Beck Rally in DC

Cuba has instituted two important market reforms . One new law allows increased foreign ownership of land, while the other allows citizens to grow and sell their own farm produce: The decree allowing expanded sale of farm products, meanwhile, could have far greater impact on ordinary Cubans

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Good News From Cuba

UCLA Professor of Public Affairs Mark Kleiman is “angry about having too much crime and an intolerable number of people behind bars.” The United States is home to five percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, yet, says Kleiman, our high incarceration rate isn’t making us safer. In his book,  When Brute Force Fails , Kleiman explains that, when it comes to punishment, there is a trade-off between severity and swiftness. For too long the U.S.

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Reason.tv: Filling Up Prisons Without Fighting Crime-Mark Kleiman on America’s Criminal Justice System

The New York Daily News reports that former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), co-chairman of President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, has “outraged feminists, Social Security recipients, and many liberal Democrats” by likening Social Security to “a milk cow with 310 million tits.” Sen

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Simpson’s Sin: Tit for Teat