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In his new special, “Bailouts, Big Spending, and Bull,” ABC’s John Stossel examines the huge bailouts, government waste, medical marijuana, universal preschool, private highways, border walls, and the myth of the struggling middle class. [1]
For more videos in Reason.tv’s award-winning Drew Carey Project series, go here. [...] Alex Manning was the director of photography and Nick Gillespie is the narrator. [...] It is the subject of an October 2006 story in reason by Senior Editor Radley Balko, whose coverage of the case led to Cory Maye receiving new legal representation and his death sentence being changed to life in prison. [...] The industry had lost much of its diversity, however, and the emergence of national brands in the 1950s and 1960s led to industry consolidation and fewer choices for American beer drinkers. [...] Taxpayers are shelling out over $17 billion for more than 11,000 Congressional earmarks in FY 2008. [...] In 1920, the National Prohibition Act destroyed the beer industry in the United States, putting some 1,500 breweries out of business. [2]
Last month Attorney General Eric Holder indicated that the Justice Department would follow through on President Obama’s promise to call off federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries. [...] Help Reason celebrate its next 40 years. [3]
Cotton subsidies, for example, encourage overproduction which lowers the world price of cotton. [...] John Stossel teams up with Drew Carey and Reason.tv! [2]
To learn more about Reason magazine, go here. [...] Among the topics will be President Barack Obama’s decision earlier this week to lift Bush administration restrictions on stem cell research and the moral status of such cells. [...] Perhaps because of a series of improper statements by prosecutor Juliet Sorensen in her rebuttal closing argument, for which the government in its brief (which she signed) belatedly apologizes (belatedly because the government defended the remarks emphatically in the district court). [3]
At a time when pundits and politicians of all stripes endorse securing the border between the United States and Mexico, reason.tv travels south to see what’s really going on-and what the human and monetary costs are of amping up border patrols. [2]
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[1] Reason Foundation: Free Minds and Free Markets
[2] reason.tv - Featured Video
[3] Hit & Run - Reason Magazine