The Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget celebrates the end of Fiscal Year 2009 with a breakdown of the year’s most appalling financial and budget statistics. Some highlights: • $1,650,971,205,167 added to the national debt, bringing the total to $7.5 trillion. • 99 banks taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Company.
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Another Fiscal Year Older and $1.65 Trillion Deeper In Debt
The online version of my article from our November issue on how private philanthropy turned tiny Columbus, Indiana into an architectural showplace didn’t include any photos of the town’s more notable buildings and structures. Over at my personal blog, I’ve posted a series of photos from my last visit.
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Photos of Columbus, Indiana
From our October issue, Senior Editor Radley Balko reports on how private philanthropy transformed a small Midwestern town into an architectural marvel. Read all about it here.
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New at Reason: Radley Balko on the Architecture of Columbus, Indiana
In " Unlocked ," Reason.tv told the story of the successful fight to transform Locke High, one of Los Angeles’ most notorious public high schools, into a charter school. Charters are public schools, often run by private nonprofit organizations, that give students an alternative to traditional schools and principals and teachers more local control over how campuses are run. The transformation of Locke High, completed over objections from the teachers union, marked the first time an existing school in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) was turned into a charter school
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Recently at Reason.tv: Cracking the Education MonopolyâLos Angeles parents demand choice. And get it.
Following up on Brian Doherty’s post about today’s huge announcement that the Supreme Court will hear arguments in McDonald v. Chicago , it’s also worth noting that the Court will not only decide whether the Second Amendment applies to the states, but whether that application occurs via the Due Process Clause or the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment
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Will the Supreme Court Incorporate the Second Amendment and Restore the Privileges or Immunities Clause?
At the Volokh Conspiracy, David Bernstein carefully debunks Alan Dershowitz’s recent New York Times ‘ review of Melvin Urofsky’s biography of progressive lawyer and Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. According to Dershowitz, "the Fourth Amendment’s right to privacy and the due process clause’s focus on personal liberty (rather than property) all owe their current vitality to the creative genius of Justice Brandeis." Yet as Bernstein explains, "Brandeis was no great hero of the Fourth Amendment," nor was he a hero of personal liberty under the Due Process Clause: …For example, in Carroll v. United States , 267 U.S
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Judging Justice Brandeis
Watch Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch debate The Means of Reproduction author (and Whole Foods boycotter) Michelle Goldberg about the vast right-wing conspiracy , the Obama protesters’ real motivation , and whether there is any rational opposition to health care reform .
…it is true that Hugo Chavez doesn’t like The Family Guy . Charlie Devereux reports : Venezuelan state TV today broadcast an excerpt from "Family Guy" as an example of how the U.S.
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It’s Not True That Corrupt Presidents-For-Life Are the Only People Who Don’t Like The Family Guy, But…
Four years ago the U.S. Supreme Court upheld New London, Connecticut’s controversial use of eminent domain to implement a "comprehensive redevelopment plan" that would provide "appreciable benefits to the community." So how’s that working out? Rick Koster of Connecticut news site The Day has a great new video showcasing exactly what New London has done so far to implement this desperately needed economic development
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A Walking Tour of the Kelo "Redevelopment"
According to many would-be health care reformers, America is addicted to expensive high-tech medicine. So to prevent the health care system from going broke, these reformers say we should "just say no" to medical innovation. But as Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey reports, claims that high-tech medicine is responsible for ever escalating health care costs may be wrong.
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New at Reason: Ron Bailey on Medical Innovation and Skyrocketing Health Care Costs
