Reason.tv: 21: Is it Time to Lower the Drinking Age?
The drinking age in the US has been 21 for more than 20 years. Today, we all take the drinking age for granted, but should we? In fact, the US is one of only four countries in the world with
The drinking age in the US has been 21 for more than 20 years. Today, we all take the drinking age for granted, but should we? In fact, the US is one of only four countries in the world with
Last month Reason.tv highlighted the heartland pol who’s waging a very real war on fake pot, but who will be this month’s top nanny? There are the New Jersey cops who wouldn’t tolerate a naked snowwoman and Pennsylvania state troopers’
As unemployment stubbornly sticks near 10 percent and any sort of economic recovery seems a long way off, think about this: The one part of the economy that’s going gangbusters is government work. Indeed, since the Great Recession started in
One of the main selling points of health care reform was that it would cut the federal deficit by a supposed $143 billion over the next decade and a trillion-plus dollars in the one after that. But not only will
After World War II, Cleveland was booming, thanks to its leadership role in heavy industry and a business-friendly climate. Today, the city’s high taxes and onerous regulatory demands make it nearly impossible for new businesses to set up shop while
Cleveland’s public schools are failing to prepare students for their futures and as a result, all parents who can afford to have been fleeing to the suburbs for decades. Yet some urban schools, like Think College Now in Oakland, California
“I don’t like regulations,” says Amy Alkon, a syndicated advice columnist who blogs daily at AdviceGoddess.com. “I like to shame people into behaving better.” Reason.tv’s Ted Balaker sat down with Alkon to discuss her new book, I See Rude People:
First Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) surrenders his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee amid an ethics investigation. Now Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) proposes an idea that she hopes will help her make good on her promise to help lead
Supertrain 2010 = Supertrain 1979! President Barack Obama has pledged $8 billion in tax dollars to build a national network of high-speed rail–trains that can carry passengers at speeds in excess of 150 MPH. But the Supertrain fantasy was a
Freddy’s in Brooklyn is a happening place that has been named one of the city’s best bars by the Village Voice, Esquire, and The New York Times. Unfortunately, Freddy’s–and the surrounding neighborhood–is smack-dab in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards
Last month’s nannies pulled a modern-day Footloose by banning singing, dancing and rapping at new bars and restaurants–in Snoop Dog’s home, no less! But what about this month? Check out who’s pulling the plug on electric bingo machines (sorry charity
When it comes to health care, who gets treated better–man or man’s best friend? Of course, it’s hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison when you’re comparing four-legged patients to people, and there are many ways in which human care tops
Over the past couple of years, the medical marijuana industry in Los Angeles has exploded. Estimates vary, but there may be as many as 800 dispensaries currently open for business in the city of angels. An ordinance recently passed by
Al Gore says that legislation ensuring “net neutrality” is “needed for the revitalization of American democracy.” Techno-vegan Moby says without it, the “egalitarian” Internet would disappear. Even Mallory from Family Ties, Justine Bateman, thinks “the freedom to access the site
No one is more self-dramatizing on cable news than male hysteric, unsolicited janitor of Cooperstown, and Countdown host Keith Olbermann, who includes more special effects during his Castro-length “Special Comment” segments than Mikhail Kalatozov did in I Am Cuba (one
What if you were injured and developed severe pain that wouldn’t go away? Would your government let you take the kind of pain medication you need? If federal officials follow the recommendation of a Food and Drug Administration panel, many
On Friday, I appeared on Bill Moyers Journal with Harvard law prof and cyberspace theorist Lawrence Lessig to discuss the whys and wherefores of the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling. From the show’s writeup: The Supreme Court’s January 2010 decision
No recent Supreme Court ruling have evoked more liberal fury than Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a campaign-finance case involving government censorship of a political documentary called Hillary: The Movie. The Federal Election Commission prevented the anti-Hillary Clinton film
George Orwell defined doublethink as “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. When it comes to war, spending, and more, President Barack Obama’s 2010 State of the Union address showed that
Past Reason.tv Nannies of The Month have included New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (anti-salt, smoking, trans fat, you name it), a New York state senator who wanted to ban fish pedicures, and a Phoenix pol who banned churches from feeding
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Bob McDonnell is a self-professed pinot grigio and white zinfandel drinker.Subscribe to Reason.tv’s YouTube channel and get immediate notification whenever a new video goes live. He’s also the new Republican governor of Virginia and is taking aim at the commonwealth’s
How resilient is the ghost of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary who ably assisted the Castro brothers’ sadly successful mission to turn Cuba into an island hellhole? His legend survives even a lackluster, long-winded biopic released in 2008
In his new book Obamanomics: How Barack Obama is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses, Timothy P. Carney explains that Barack Obama’s “progressive” rhetoric masks good old-fashioned crony capitalism, in which the favored
Over at Reason.com, my colleague Matt Welch and I list three basic reasons why the Dems are in big, big trouble. And one reason why they’re not: Martha Coakley’s resounding defeat in the Massachusetts Senate race is hardly the sort
