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Only 400 of 2,200 Body Scanners Are In Place at Airports So Outrage at TSA...

Defenders of the TSA’s intrusive new airport screening procedures (including The Nation) keep pointing to last week’s CBS News poll that showed 81% of Americans supposedly support full-body airport...

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The Case Against Motorcycle Helmet Laws

If you have a strong disregard for your own health and safety, you are free to express it in all sorts of ways. You can smoke cigarettes. You can gorge on fast food five times a day. You can go live...

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A Simple Way to Improve Medicare

Medicare, the government's health plan for seniors, has observed a ritual that's as regular and anticipated as the presidential pardon of a Thanksgiving turkey. It's called the “Doc Fix” and it's been...

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TSA: Travel is a Privilege

It's been a few days, but I'm still struck by the utter boldness of Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole's public and presumably intended to be quoted comment: “I see flying as a...

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Transit-Oriented Developments in Austin, Texas Falter

Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised, but Austin, Texas is having trouble making its transit-oriented development (TODs) work. From the Austin Chronicle (11/26/2010):"Five years later, Austinites can...

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It's Not About NO Airport Security, but BETTER Airport Security

Steve Horwitz has a column emphasizing that objections to the TSA are about finding ways to improve security, not eliminate it.Marcotte should take seriously the libertarian alternative, which is to...

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Israeli air security experts insist their methods better than U.S.

The Washington Post reports:Israel has long held the reputation as home to the world's most stringent airport security procedures. But most passengers aren't frisked, there are no intimately revealing...

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Did the Midterms Matter?

Now that the dust has settled from Election Day, it's worth asking whether the midterms will have much impact on American governance, especially in the brief lull before the 2012 presidential season...

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Covering Their Assets

In March the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public-interest law firm, praised Indiana for curbing asset forfeiture abuses by assigning proceeds from seized property to the state's public schools...

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Federal Pay Freeze Side Show Ignores Real Spending Drivers

The Obama Administration's decision to freeze federal pay is more sideshow that meaningful fiscal restraint. The probem with federal spending is that government is expanding its role in all sorts of...

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White House Federal Pay Freeze Proposal Is a Start

President Obama will propose today freezing federal employee pay for the next two years, a move no doubt aimed at Republican attacks that the White House isn't willing to substantively address the debt...

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The Conquering Bureaucracy

Reputation and Power: Organizational Image andPharmaceutical Regulation at theFDA, by DanielCarpenter, Princeton University Press, 856 pages, $29.95After spending months in the Amazon sometime in the...

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Transportation Projects Aren't Being Chosen on the Merits

 The Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 1998 (TIFIA) was enacted as part of the TEA-21 reauthorization. Its purpose was to “leverage limited federal resources and stimulate...

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The Appearance of Corruption

When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, he quickly established a reputation as a trust buster, railing against the power of giant corporations. In 1902 he ordered a Sherman Act lawsuit aimed...

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Tax Exemption for Health Benefits On Its Last Legs?

Though it's uncertain whether the next Congress will enact meaningful budget reform, there's reason to believe that once sacrosanct tax benefits could soon be canceled in the name of deficit-trimming....

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In Defense of Economic Growth

Daniel Ben-Ami, a London-based journalist, has covered economics and finance for two decades, contributing to such publications as The Guardian, The Independent, the Sunday Telegraph, the Financial...

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The Eleventh Commandment: Punish Free Riders

Two of the deep puzzles in human evolution are religion and cooperation between genetically unrelated strangers. In recent years, many researchers have come to believe the two phenomena are intimately...

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Are All Farms Created Equal When It Comes to Subsidies?

The Bipartisan Policy Center's plan to control the federal deficit, which argues convincingly for cutting distortionary and unfair elements of the tax code, occasionally seems to encourage the very...

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Naked Truth

According to the Transportation Security Administration, Americans have no problem with the new airport screening procedures. So they should stop complaining.That self-contradictory reassurance, which...

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End the Lame-Duck Sessions

It was a moment of inadvertent public honesty. An open C-SPAN microphone caught the often-beleaguered Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), lamenting the impotence of this congressional lame-duck...

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