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LAPD Stands Down on Occupy LA
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For days, OccupyLA had been told to evacuate its camp outside Los Angeles City Hall by 12:01 am on Monday, November 28. Throughout Thanksgiving weekend, the deadline approached and tension increased. When the police-led ev> |
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The Killing of Allen Kephart: How the Police Lost the Trust of a Law-and-Order Town
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On May 10, 43-year old Allen Kephart died after being tased multiple times by three San Bernardino, California sheriff's deputies during a routine traffic stop. Kephart, a quiet and well-liked member of the tight-knit > |
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Atlas Shrugged's Makers Speak! Q&A w producers & actor
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Released April 15, 2011, Atlas Shrugged Part I has been predictably panned by reviewers and wildly embraced by audiences. At the movie-review site Rotten Tomatoes, just 8 percent of critics give a thumbs up, compared to 85> |
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Drug Policy Alliance's Ethan Nadelmann on the Future of Legalization
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"We are making remarkable momentum with respect to changing the marijuana laws," says Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes alternatives to the war on drugs. > |
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Tweeting Around Egypt's Web Blackout: Meet John Scott-Railton
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The Egyptian government may have blocked Egyptians' access to the Internet, but it couldn't block the Internet itself. Thanks to the likes of John Scott-Railton, voices of countless Egyptian protesters continue to > |
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Former LA Mayor Richard Riordan on Schwarzenegger, Unions, and Bankrupt Cities
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"Throughout the country, 90 percent of cities and states are going to go bankrupt within the next five years, many of them sooner." So says former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. Reason.tv's Tim Cavanaugh > |
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Why the Feds Banned Four Loko (And is your favorite drink next?)
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On December 21, Ramiro Diaz was arrested for selling eight cans of Four Loko to an undercover agent from the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Diaz faces up to a year in jail for the offense, but just a fe> |
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Obama vs. Reagan: Ray Griggs on His New Film, 'I Want Your Money'
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"It's beyond what you can think of as bankruptcy," says documentary filmmaker Ray Griggs of the current state of US debt. "In our world, you go bankrupt. In the government world, they just keep writing c> |
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Hollywood Hates Capitalism - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Edition
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Oliver Stone's uber-villain Gordon Gekko is back in the new film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which (surprise!) features greedy capitalists behaving badly. It might remind you of Avatar, Mission Impossible 2 or rou> |
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Adam Carolla on Taxes, Drugs, and More at Reason.tv!
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Adam Carolla is coming to reason.tv and reason.com this Tuesday! The Ace Man, host of the wildly popular Adam Carolla Show, and author of the new book, In 50 Years We'll All Be Chicks, rages against cops, drug laws, ta> |
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Free the 'Shine! Why it's finally time to legalize liquor
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If drinking makes us healthier and wealthier, why is America's liquor policy so screwy? Jimmy Carter legalized home brewing in 1978, and that newfound freedom fueled the craft beer movement that continues to lavish bee> |
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Bootleggers and Baptists: A Conversation with Bruce Yandle
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While serving as the Executive Director of the Federal Trade Commission during the Reagan years, Bruce Yandle developed a theoretical framework he called "bootleggers and Baptists" to help make sense of regulator> |
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Nanny of the Month for April 2010: Anti-Flag NC Cop Scott Hunter
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Last month's biggest busybody was the New York politician who's waging a war on salt. This month's top honors could have gone to the US senator who wants to block betting on box office sales or the Silicon Vall> |
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Peter Diamandis on the X PRIZE and Private Space Flight
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His Zero Gravity Corporation lets the public experience weightlessness during parabolic flight, and his company Space Adventures has taken four tourists to the International Space Station. But space entrepreneur Peter Diam> |
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How iPad Technology and iPhone Apps Expand Liberty
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Got a pothole? There's an app for that. Need a medical marijuana dispensary? There's an app for that, too. Reason.tv's Ted Balaker sat down with Matt Harrison and Justin Hartfield of the Prometheus Institute to> |
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Virginia Postrel: How to Reform Health Care Without Killing Innovation
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Former Reason magazine Editor in Chief Virginia Postrel has seen the strengths and the shortcomings of the American health care system both as a kidney donor and a breast cancer survivor. She argues that individuals should> |
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Virginia Postrel: Glamour, Politics, & Voter Expectations
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Glamour is "not just about movie stars," says Virginia Postrel. The editor in chief of Deepglamour.net and former Editor in Chief of Reason magazine points out that glamour, which originally meant a literal magic> |
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Taco Truck Takedown: Why is the LAPD hassling food carts?
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Taco trucks pull up to curbs and offer LA eaters everything from tofu bowls to Korean barbeque. Customers flock to them, and recently so have police officers. Truck owners report being cited for everything from parking too> |
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Reason.tv's Nanny of the Year 2009!
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In 2009, America's meddlers worked overtime minding other people's business. Nanny of the Month winners have targeted everything from fish pedicures to feeding the homeless. But there can be only one Nanny of the Y> |
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ObamaCare and Mission Creep: Why health care reform will end up covering much more than you think.
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From the war in Iraq to the space station, government programs almost always end up costing much more than they were supposed to. They also usually end up doing more than they were supposed to. Would ObamaCare be any diffe> |
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