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Free ride.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

Aug 01, 2008; Undis, David F. ... The State of Georgia used to offer a $7 discount on driver's license fees to people who signed up to be organ donors. Drivers who were eligible for the donor discount were up to 40 percent more likely to sign up as potential organ donors than those who didn't qualify for a discount, such ...

Serve the (old) people.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

Aug 01, 2008; Sullum, Arnold ... National service as it was experienced by four of our granddaughters is a complete refutation of Paul Thornton's "Serve the (Old) People" (May). In Israel following high school graduation, women have a choice of army service or national service. My granddaughter Rebecca did both. As a ...

No child left behind: Texas abuses children to prevent abuse.

Aug 01, 2008; Sullum, Jacob ... TWO WEEKS before the Texas Supreme Court unanimously rejected the wholesale removal of children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, a spokesman for the state's Child Protective Services (CPS) insisted the case "is not about religion." If you believe that, you may also believe ...

Quotes.(Quotation)

Aug 01, 2008 ... "Where these gentlemen live, they don't have vehicle ferries. They were fascinated that a ferry could hold that many cars and wanted to show folks back home." --FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs on the conclusion of a year-long global search for two men spotting snapping ...

Dorothy Simpson suffers from an irregular heartbeat that gives her an increased chance of heart failure and stroke.(Brief article)

Aug 01, 2008; Oliver, Charles ... Dorothy Simpson suffers from an irregular heartbeat that gives her an increased chance of heart failure and stroke. Her doctor recommended surgery to correct the problem. But Great Britain's National Health Service ...

Whitewater, Wisconsin, Police Chief James Coan involved at least two detectives and several other city employees--all during working hours--in a quest to find the identity of the pseudonymous John Adams.(Brief article)

Aug 01, 2008; Oliver, Charles ... Whitewater, Wisconsin, Police Chief James Coan involved at least two detectives and several other city employees--all during working ...

Laura Todd has died several times during the last eight years.(Brief article)

Aug 01, 2008; Oliver, Charles ... Laura Todd has died several times during the last eight years. Or rather, the federal government keeps declaring the Nashville woman dead, thanks to a mix-up involving her Social Security number. Some of ...

Information, please.(Department of Homeland Security, Freedom of Information Act requests)(Brief article)

Aug 01, 2008; Mangu-Ward, Katherine ... In 2006, queries to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accounted for nearly half of pending Freedom of Information Act requests. In 2002, by contrast, queries to the department accounted for less than a quarter of total requests. DHS now receives about 100,000 requests annually. ...

Collateral damage: drug informant outrage.(Brief article)

Aug 01, 2008; Balko, Radley ... EARLIER this year, police in Tallahassee, Florida, raided the home of college student Rachel Hoffman. Her friends say Hoffman was a bit of a hippie-ish free spirit, and they concede that she shared and sold small amounts of marijuana and ecstasy within her social circle. Hoffman was at the ...

Getting his goat: religious freedom in Texas.(Brief article)

Aug 01, 2008; Sullum, Jacob ... Jose Merced wants to cut a few throats, but the city of Euless, Texas, won't let him. Merced, a Santeria priest, is challenging a local ordinance that prohibits the slaughter of goats, an essential part of the sacrifices required by his Afro-Caribbean religion. In April, after ...

Obscenely prosecuted.(John Stagliano's pornography case)(Interview)

Aug 01, 2008; Gillespie, Nick ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] John Stagliano has been in the pornography business for more than 20 years. His long career includes a starring role in the first Chippendales troupe, various parts in porn films, and eventually success as a producer and distributor of adult movies, ...

Look who's coming in third! With Bob Barr's nomination, the Libertarian Party is threatening to achieve historical relevance.

Aug 01, 2008; Weigel, David ... NEVER IN THE history of the Libertarian Party has an idea been executed so smoothly as the nomination of Bob Barr, a former Republican congressman--and former drug warrior--from Georgia. True, it took six ballots at the party's national convention in Denver to nominate the man. True, the ...

Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground.(Interview)

Aug 01, 2008; Walker, Jesse ... SINCE THE 1970S, an underground subculture has been making and privately screening short films. The artists are fans--and critics--of cult TV shows, from StarTrek to Homicide: Life on the Street. Their movies are music videos, edited from pieces of those programs and other sources into ...

Conservatives against empire: The forgotten tradition of the antiwar right.(Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism)(Book review)

Aug 01, 2008; Antle, W. James, III ... Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism, by Bill Kauffman, New York: Metropolitan Books, 304 pages, $25 IF YOU ARE trying to discover how a particular conservative understands conservatism, a good place to start is ...

The afterlife of American clothes: Haitian entrepreneurs find value in our castoffs.

Aug 01, 2008; McNeil, Joanne ... WHEN THRIFTY shoppers in Boston and Miami pick through secondhand shirts at local Salvation Army outlets or estate sales, they are as likely to meet Haitians as hipsters. Some of the immigrants will simply be collecting clothes to mail back to family in Port-au-Prince, but others are part ...

Hope floats.(Brief article)

Aug 01, 2008; Mangu-Ward, Katherine ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SEASTEADING--homesteading on the high seas--is an idea that has long attracted libertarians, along with others who would like to see a little more competition between forms of social organization. The idea is to get out into international waters and set up ...