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The Free State Project, an interesting experiment to get 20,000 libertarians to all relocate to New Hampshire to reshape local and state politics in a place where those numbers are politically powerful, hits 10,000 committed to the goal. (In order to avoid the ” you go first” problem, the commitment is structured so that no one is obligated to go through with it until 20K have signed up. Of course, all that is at stake is your ol’ sacred honor.) From the group’s press release , on what it’s all about, what the Project might accomplish, and what it already has: Participants come from many backgrounds but all agree to move to New Hampshire, where they will “exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty, and property.” The agreement avoids political labels and allows individual participants to set their own course to reach their goal

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Halfway to Freedom in New Hampshire

It is difficult to determine just what specific curriculum changes the Texas school board has in mind, though the ringleader of the revisionist faction, a creationist weirdo named Don McLeroy , strikes me as one who wants to impart ideology into the textbooks, not balance. Historians, it seems, are also skeptical .

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Don’t Mess With the Texas Curriculum

Here’s something for you “Constitution nuts” to enjoy. George Mason University law professor David Bernstein, the author of several superb law review articles on the Supreme Court case Lochner v

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Constitutional History

A Boston Globe investigation finds that Massachusetts’ Economic Development Incentive Program, which during the last 16 years has dispensed hundreds of millions of dollars in state and local tax breaks to businesses that promised to create jobs, often has little or nothing to show for its efforts: Hundreds of the projects delivered fewer jobs than promised, and some companies actually slashed employment.

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Government-Subsidized Job Creation Preservation Elimination in Massachusetts

Reuters, citing new research published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine , reports : U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S

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First They Came for My Soda, Now They are Coming for My Pizza!

Today’s episode of Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey is titled ” Taking Care of Business ” and details the various ways in which The Mistake on The Lake makes it tougher than tough to start and operate businesses within the city’s limits. Well, what about the dump you call home?

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Open Thread: Is Your Town Pro-Business? Anti-Business? Let Us Count The Ways

Even the federal government can only spend so much on a project that’s never worked. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that after three and a half years and $1.4 billion, she is freezing funding for the virtual border fence in Arizona

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Virtual Fence Virtually Dead

MSNBC’s David Shuster takes time off from hectoring guests to ask Tracy Quan (pro) and Janice Crouse (con) whether the United States is ready for legalized prostitution:

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Is America Ready for Legalized Prostitution?

Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a provocative op/ed by Yale law student Michael Seringhaus in which he advocated that the DNA profiles of every American be kept in a central forensic database. The goal of such a database is to help the police fight crime by better enabling them to find perpetrators who leave DNA traces at the scenes of their misdeeds.

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Fight Crime with a Universal DNA Database?