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Reason.tv: Adam Carolla Uncensored: Legalize Drugs, Cut Taxes, Drive Through Red Lights! 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 more in this wide-ranging, uncensored interview with Reason.tv's Ted Balaker. The Ace Man calls for legalizing drugs and gambling, lowering taxes, and clearing our prisons of anyone incarcerated for victimless crimes. He discusses whether he just might be a libertarian and spells out what he would do if he replaced Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor of Los Angeles (hint: left turns on red lights and drag racing with Richard Branson!). Click here to watch. Coming Soon: Reason in 3D! Subscribe now to get our special November issue in 3D along with your FREE pair of Reason 3D glasses! You'll need them to watch Reason.tv's soon-to-be-released video series on spending, deficits, and public sector compensation so terrifyingly true they can only be viewed in 3D! http://reason.com/see-reason-in-3d D'Souza to Obama, With Malice: The president is a Keynesian economic meddler, not a Kenyan anti-colonialist. In a recent Forbes cover story, conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza argued that the ideology that motivates President Barack Obama is not socialism or some variant thereof. Rather, it is anti-colonialism, something that Obama inherited from his long-dead Kenyan father whom he saw only twice. Yet as Shikha Dalmia explains, the truth is that the president is a Keynesian economic meddler, not a Kenyan anti-colonialist. http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/21/dsouza-to-obama-with-malice Join Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch, Ron Bailey, and Jacob Sullum on Reason's weeklong Caribbean cruise in February 2011. Sign up today!   http://www.reasoncruise.com Public Employees vs. the Public Will: Government workers get more powerful as they grow less popular. It is now mainstream opinion that public employee salaries, benefits, and pensions are crippling state governments from coast to coast. When a group of comedians performed a "2010 Public Employee of the Year Awards" sketch-wherein lumpen freeloaders compete at Harrah's in Atlantic City for the title of "Surliest and Least Cooperative State Employee" and so on-the performers were not the after-dinner entertainment at FreedomFest but the Not Ready For Prime Time venerables of Saturday Night Live. Yet as Tim Cavanaugh explains in our October issue, those same government workers still manage to get more powerful as they grow less popular. http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/21/public-employees-vs-the-public Hit & Run, Reason's Staff Blog We Probably Didn't Need Those Child-Only Insurance Policies Anyway Today's entry from the No One Could Have Predicted! File is a new rule for health insurers scheduled to take effect in just a few days on the PPACA's six-month anniversary. Because health insurance is For The Children, and because Democrats putting together the new health care law wanted new consumer benefits to trumpet in the weeks prior to the November election, they built a provision into the law telling insurers that, starting this Thursday, September 23, they could no longer turn down child for a child-only health policy because of preexisting conditions. In effect, though, that means that children who are already sick won't be turned down, which, yes, sounds very nice - and would be if it were feasible and not likely to lead to insurance gaming.... Read the rest here. Posted by Peter Suderman http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/21/we-probably-didnt-need-those-c Daily Brickbat It's Too Convenient In Washington, D.C. the Ward 6A Advisory Neighborhood Commission is appealing a decision to grant a certificate of occupancy to a new 7-11, and commission members have asked the Board of Zoning Adjustment to require the store to get a fast food license. The commission objects to the owner's plans to sell chicken wings. They say customers will discard the bones in the street. http://www.reason.com/brickbat/

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