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
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 .
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"
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.
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Reason.tv: Cracking the Education Monopoly—Los Angeles parents demand choice. And get it.
Via the great Overlawyered.com , the gag-inducing story of a former Florida police officer who’s suing the force after they fired him for being a drunk. From Tampa’s WTSP: [Former Sgt. Clinton] Knowles was terminated in April 2008, two months after he harassed a pair of women off-duty at the Applebee’s in North Port
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He’s Not Drunk, He’s Alcoholically Disabled
Show here ; listen live at this link . Subject is the editor’s note from the November issue, which only (some) subscribers have seen.
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Matt Welch on KINF 1440 AM Santa Barbara at 6 PM PDT to Talk About the Forgotten Lessons of Defeating Communism
Like bears to honey or zombies to brains, politicians find something irresistible about soda taxes. President Obama recently told Men’s Health magazine that he thinks a "sin tax" on soda is "an idea that we should be exploring." San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom moved to impose a fee on stores for selling sugary drinks, only to admit that his plan was probably illegal. In December, New York Gov.
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Reason Writers Around Town: Katherine Mangu-Ward in WaPo on Soda Taxes
The media critic Dan Kennedy, who was a huge Safire fan without generally sharing his politics, compiles a list of Safire’s civil liberties wrting. Link via Kennedy’s Twitter feed
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William Safire, Civil Libertarian
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
