Reason: One Interactive Map "Created or Saved" by Stimulus

A nice interactive map that displays the erroneous reports of jobs saved or created by the stimulus.

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Too Big To Fail 2.0 - This Time, It's Personal Finance. And Just About Everything Else.

As the one-year anniversary of TARP chugs into view, Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie sat down with Reason Foundation policy analyst Anthony Randazzo to look at the next round of comprehensive financial regulations being crafted in Washington, D.C.

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Ted Kennedy and the Death (Hopefully) of an Era: The controversial senator belonged to a different age, one ill-suited to today's increasingly decentralized world

Which brings me to the second point: The legislation for which he will be remembered is precisely the sort of top-down, centralized legislation that needs to be jettisoned in the 21st century. Like Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) and the recently deposed Sen.

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Teddy Would Have Wanted This

I'm no Emily Post, but doesn't good taste dictate that ObamaCare advocates wait at least one business day before using Ted Kennedy's death to agitate for health care reform?

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What's Scary About Health Care Reform?: The system may be in need of repair. But ObamaCare will only make things worse.

A hammer is a marvelous tool, but only for the right job. If you took an expensive watch to a repairman and he pulled out a hammer, you would be extremely nervous, if not aghast.

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You Can Pay Your Customers' Sales Tax; You Just Can't Talk About It

Every year from 2003 through 2008, The Boston Globe reports, Massachusetts shoppers have enjoyed "the annual summer rite of a sales-tax holiday." This year the state canceled the holiday even as it raised the sales tax from 5 percent to 6.25 percent.

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An Ounce of Prevention Often Costs a Ton of Money

This inconvenient truth comes, once again, from the CBO. In an Aug. 7 letter to Rep.

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Shepard Fairey: Obama Skeptics Suffering from False Consciousness

If you don't support Obama, you must be a frustrated, confused halfwit who doesn't quite understand why the government would give Americans $4500 for a 2004 Dodge Dakota.

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Obama's Health Care Plan Just Expands Status Quo

One of the bewildering ironies of the health-care debate is that President Obama claims to be attacking the status quo when he's actually embracing it.

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Ill-Gotten Planes

Of course, at no point in these deliberations—or most of the coverage for that matter—did anyone consider that congressmen might fly coach.

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If Health-Care Reform Passes, Will Protests Increase?

Making government a bigger player in the health-care process means that health-care decisions are increasingly political decisions, which, in turn, means that people and companies turn ever more toward political acts—like protests and lobbying—in order to participate.

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"Governments Took Over the Exclusive Function of Coining Money Because Unscrupulous Men Began Coating Cheap Metal Disks With Gold and Silver Plating."

Since there is a zero-percent chance that anybody will consider the actual solution to the commercial and residential real estate disease -- allow overleveraged jerks to go out of business and let prices fall to where saving souls will no longer be priced out of the market -- we' …

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Food Safety Shuffle: Why the House's new food safety bill won't make us healthier or safer

Last month, the House got around to updating food safety laws that have been in effect since 1938. The bill, which the Senate will take up in the fall, gives the Food and Drug Administration substantial new inspection powers and beefs up funding for food safety research.

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Obama Web-Tracking Proposal Raises Privacy Concerns

The Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with "cookies" and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups.

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Chicago: The Second Amendment Doesn't Apply Here

The federal 7th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Second Amendment offers zero protection against the restrictive gun control laws currently in place in Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois.

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Privatize the Post...Oh, Just Forget It

Time was, small government-types loved to freak out about the Post Office.

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Speaking truth to power

What right do ordinary citizens have to protest the Federal takeover of the Healthcare industry? For that matter, why would anyone show up at town hall meetings with their elected representatives to protest the policies of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid government? Answer: They have every …

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Think Progress, MSNBC 'Manufacture' a Story With Putative Smoking Gun 'Mob' Memo

When the "manufactured" outrage the Left is trying to demonize lines up so inconveniently with public polling, it's sometimes necessary to create evidence for the "manufactured" storyline. Enter Think Progress, which unearthed this shocking, secret memo from the leader of a smal …

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You'll Just Love Government HMOs, Say Bay State Bureaucrats - Reason Magazine

In any case, the NPR story today was all about the joys of Massachusett's three-year failing experiment with health care reform. Surprise! It turns out that the state government can't pay for it.

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Little Bitty Bang Bang: The trouble with "cash for clunkers" - Reason Magazine

Then again, in Washington, a place where elected officials are astonished—astonished!—when a program doling out free cash is popular, success often translates into higher costs and fewer results.

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Democrats Decline to Listen to Unhappy Constituents, Decide to Label Them Nuts Instead - Reason Magazine

A handful of Democratic lawmakers have decided that rather than engage in intelligent conversation and debate with actual constituents who are protesting nationalized health care, it would be better to just label them crazy.

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Health Bureaucrat Pens Bland Op-Ed Saying Health Bureaucrats Deserve More Power

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