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Reason: Mutual Hatred Is All Democrats and Republicans Have to Offer

By Paul | Published November 19, 2019

J.D. Tuccille writing at Reason.com: What defines a Republican, these days? How about a Democrat? That’s a difficult question to answer. After years of shifting priorities and ideologies, the beliefs of Republicans of today bear little resemblance to those of somebody of that affiliation from a decade ago, and the modern Democrat is just as […]

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Trump Administration Rule Allowing Refusals in Health Care Struck Down

By Paul | Published November 7, 2019

American Civil Liberties Union: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York struck down the Trump administration’s rule that allows health care institutions and providers to deny patients information and treatment based on personal religious or moral beliefs. That’s good to hear. I know people who are afraid of change, generally, and […]

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South Park: Band in China…

By Paul | Published October 15, 2019
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Trump: Wag, wag, wag…

By Paul | Published October 7, 2019

CONRAD BREAN: “Who’s got the story?” AMES: “Wait, don’t you want to know if it’s true?” CONRAD: “What difference does it make if it’s true? It’s a story and if it breaks they’re gonna have to run with it. How long we got ’till it breaks?” AMES: “Front page, Washington Post tomorrow.” CONRAD: “Uh, well, […]

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Reason: Don’t Destroy the Constitution To Fight Drag Queen Reading Hour

By Paul | Published September 20, 2019

Steven Greenhut writing at Reason.com: The Sacramento public library featured a drag-queen story hour, in which men dressed as women read stories to children. It seems bizarre and agenda-driven, given that a stated goal was to provide kids with “glamorous, positive and unabashedly queer role models.” I’ve seen drag queens and glamorous isn’t the first […]

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Why the American people still need newspapers

By Paul | Published September 8, 2019

Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University and the founder of the 1 for All campaign for the First Amendment, in a guest column for The Tennessean: It’s important to acknowledge newspapers’ past, but also to express concern about their future. […] too many view this as a business […]

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Reason Podcast: The Libertarian Case for Term Limits

By Paul | Published August 29, 2019

Nick Tomboulides, the executive director of U.S. Term Limits, on the Reason Podcast with Nick Gillespie: “Congress has given us $22 trillion in debt, the longest war in American history, a broken health care system, a broken immigration system, a tax code written by lobbyists, and an explosion of money in politics. Worst of all, […]

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Free-Speech Clichés Everyone Should Stop Using

By Paul | Published August 26, 2019

Ken White, writing at the Atlantic: If I ask 10 physics professors what will happen if I drop my pencil and why, they will all say: “It will fall, because of gravity.” There is very little risk that they will say “Well, maybe it will fall or maybe it won’t” because they think gravity is […]

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Washington Post: Trump’s prized Doral resort is in steep decline, according to company documents, showing his business problems are mounting

By Paul | Published May 16, 2019

David A. Fahrenthold and Jonathan O’Connell: The troubles at Trump Doral — detailed here for the first time, based on documents and video obtained under Florida’s public-records law — suggest the Trump Organization’s problems are bigger than previously known. This is also the first known case in which a Trump Organization representative has publicly acknowledged […]

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Reason Roundup: White House Seeks Social Media Sob Stories from Conservative Snowflakes

By Paul | Published May 16, 2019

Elizabeth Nolan Brown at reason.com: Was someone mean to you on Twitter? The White House wants to know about it. As of Wednesday, a new tool on the White House website allows visitors to report suspected “political bias” from social media companies. “Too many Americans have seen their accounts suspended, banned, or fraudulently reported for […]

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