For months, California has been a laughingstock state, unable to pass an annual budget, facing a declaration of “fiscal emergency,” fighting over pay cuts and furloughs for government employees, threatening to issue IOUs to creditors. With a “framework” budget agreement
Nanny of the Month turns one-year-old this month, and it seems that public officials’ obsession with minding other people’s business has only intensified over the past 12 months. We’ve exposed meddlers who want to squash other people’s right to do
Just mere days ago, Reason.tv broke the fourth wall, the fifth dimension, and the seventh sense by releasing, in conjunction with Reason magazine, the 3D series Fiscal House of Horrors! The series, including the episodes “I Spend on Your Grave!”,
Reason.tv reports from the “One Nation” rally for “Jobs, Justice, and Education” on Saturday, October 2 in Washington, D.C. The event was organized by the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Teachers, the Service Employees International Union, and other
Now that the final bell has rung on NBC’s week-long Education Nation conference, we can ask the extra credit question: When did school choice go mainstream? The “summit,” held at NBC’s New York studios at Rockefeller Center, almost felt like
In a country of exceptionally high rates of personal taxation and home to one of the world’s most generous welfare states, Norway’s Progress Party, which describes itself as a “classical liberal” organization committed to “personal freedom,” is something of an
Just a few years out of college and David “Doc” Sands has already racked up nearly $2.5 million winning poker tournaments, and this January he became the world’s top-ranked online tournament player. Sands sat down with Reason.tv’s Ted Balaker to
Oliver Stone’s uber-villain Gordon Gekko is back in the new film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which (surprise!) features greedy capitalists behaving badly. It might remind you of Avatar, Mission Impossible 2 or roughly a zillion other films in which
Oliver Stone’s uber-villain Gordon Gekko is back in the new film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which (surprise!) features greedy capitalists behaving badly. It might remind you of Avatar, Mission Impossible 2 or roughly a zillion other films in which
Adam Carolla, host of the hugely popular Adam Carolla Show and author of the new book, In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks, rages against cops, drug laws, tax hikes, traffic congestion, spendy politicians, Tim Robbins, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and
On September 30, Reason.tv brings a terrifying new dimension to our award-winning video productions! Just in time for the Halloween season comes our Fiscal House of Horror videos in thrilling, chilling, drink-spilling 3D! Our special videos on out-of-control federal spending,
The U.S. government classifies marijuana–along with heroin and LSD–as a Schedule I drug, the most tightly restricted category of drugs in the United States. According to the federal government, Schedule I drugs are unsafe and have “no currently accepted medical
On September 12, 2010 in Washington, D.C., FreedomWorks sponsored its second annual 9/12 rally, based on the theme of “Remember in November.” Among the speakers were FreedomWorks’ Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe (go here for Reason.tv’s interview with them about
Now that they’ve passed ObamaCare, can we see what’s in it? Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of The Truth About ObamaCare sits down with Ted Balaker to discuss what’s really on the way
Recently the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned “flavored” cigarettes, preventing the sale of clove and (the hitherto unknown) “chocolate” cigarettes. These “candy flavored” smokes hook teenagers by masking, according to one anti-smoking activist, “the taste of the poison.” And
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is the latest victim of the Tea Party insurgency that’s trying to take over the Republican Party. Tea Party favorite Joe Miller defeated Murkowski in The North Star State’s primary by hammering away at (among other
If drinking makes us healthier and wealthier, why is America’s liquor policy so screwy? Jimmy Carter legalized home brewing in 1978, and that newfound freedom fueled the craft beer movement that continues to lavish beer lovers with endless choices. But
u Did you hear about the Oregon health inspector who shut down a seven-year-old girl’s lemonade stand? How about the California mayor who put the kibosh on a three-year-old’s vegetable stand? Sure they’re both big-time buttinskys, but this month top
On August 28, 2010, Fox News host Glenn Beck held his “Restoring Honor” rally at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The aim of the event, explained the lachrymose TV personality, was to “come celebrate America by
Unless you’ve been pulling a Rip Van Winkle for the past few years, you know that your state is more busted than Larry Craig in an airport toilet. The only possible exception is the state of Denial, and it closed
“The denial of the possibility that there is an endpoint [to the welfare state] is crucial to the liberal enterprise,” says Dr. William Voegeli, author of the new book, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State and a visiting scholar at
Before Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005, Orleans Parish public schools were failing miserably. After the storm shut down the public school system completely, there was little reason to be optimistic. But then something amazing happened. The state of
ObamaCare expands coverage to millions of Americans, but, warns Professor Shirley Svorny, without stronger measures to expand the supply of healthcare providers and contain costs, we can expect a physician shortage and soaring premiums. The California State University, Northridge economist
Congress has passed a $26 billion aid package that is intended to save the jobs of thousands of teachers, nurses, and other public-sector employees. To critics who call the measure a “special interest” bill, President Barack Obama says , “I
