No news story about soda tax is complete without the scolding phrase "empty calories," yet soda consumption per capita has remained steady over the past two decades as obesity numbers have continued to rise.
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New at Reason: Katherine Mangu-Ward on Soda Tax Myths
Andrew O’Hehir of Salon has written a compelling essay about his life as a homeschooling dad, written in something similar to a FAQ format: There’s the frequently asked question, the vague reply he gave in real life, and then the longer full truth he doesn’t feel like getting into when a stranger starts inquiring about his childrearing decisions.
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Ask a Homeschooler!
From our October issue, Veronique de Rugy reports on a vicious fight between United Parcel Service and its main private competitor in the delivery business, FedEx, over archaic labor rules that classify the companies based on their favored forms of transportation. Read all about it here.
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New at Reason: Veronique de Rugy on Using Unions As Weapons
In today’s Washington Post , Bjorn Lomborg, who heads up the Danish think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, argues that imposing steep immediate cuts on carbon dioxide emissions in an attempt to slow man-made global warming will cause far more harm than it will do good. Why? First, the costs of carbon rationing would far outweigh the benefits.
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Carbon Rationing Will Hurt the Poor Worse, Argues Skeptical Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg
An alternate history in which beer and coffee keep Canada together, thus preventing the end of the world. [Via Rob MacDougall , who knows a thing or two about alternate Canadas.]
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Monday Fun Link
From The Foundation For Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) comes this video with Dave Barry, whose work has been deemed "patently offensive" and censored by some college administrators: FIRE’s website here . Hat tip: Instapundit Read Reason ’s great 1994 interview: " All I think is that it’s stupid: Dave Barry on laughing at Very Big Government ."
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Dave Barry on Politics, Free Speech, and Campus Restrictions
Instead of reaffirming the importance of our relationship with Israel, writes David Harsanyi, President Barack Obama has renewed our membership in the United Nations Human Rights Council, presided over by exemplars of self-determination and human dignity, such as Libya, Syria, and Angola. But shouldn’t the U.S
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New at Reason: David Harsanyi on Obama and Israel
Reason.tv’s Nick Gillespie appeared on Fox News’ Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Wednesday, September 23 and discussed tea party protests, the death of conservativism, and the future of libertarian politics.
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Reason.tv: Nick Gillespie on Freedom Watch With Judge Andrew Napolitano
From our October issue, Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward explains how new laws aimed at kneecapping payday lenders will end up hurting the poor. Read all about it here.
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New at Reason: Katherine Mangu-Ward on Payday Lending
It’s not just Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann bringing the crazy on cable news. Check out this short clip of Ed Schultz, who has an almost unwatchable show on MSNBC (with the creative title "The Ed Show"), clarifying Republican objections to ObamaCare:
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They Want To See You Dead!
