 | | Reason.tv: Nanny of the Month for August 2010 - Police Chief Bust Guy Who Keeps Drunks Off the Street
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 honors go to the top cop who busted a guy who was offering free rides to keep drunk drivers off the road.
Presenting Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for August 2010: Quincy, Illinois Police Chief Rob Copely!
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Needs More RAM: Another drug raid gone bad
Two years ago the Chesapeake, Virginia, police made some decisions that led to an officer's death, then tried to convict a scapegoat of capital murder. In April, following an outcry, the police department announced a change in how it will conduct drug raids. But as Senior Editor Radley Balko explains in our August-September issue, it wasn't the change you might have expected.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/31/drug-raid-gone-bad
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Life for Poker: The arrest of online gambling entrepreneur Daniel Tzvetkoff
From our August-September issue, Senior Editor Jacob Sullum reports on the arrest of Daniel Tzvetkoff, co-founder of the online payment processor Intabill. As Sullum writes, Tzvetkoff's crime was doing precisely what Intabill purported to do: facilitate online payments, including bets by American poker players.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/31/online-gambling-arrest
Hit & Run, Reason's Staff Blog
HHS Secretary Sebelius on ObamaCare: "We have a lot of reeducation to do."
No, I'm not making this up: In an interview with ABC News yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that "there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn't." The remedy for the poor, bewildered public? "We have a lot of reeducation to do."
As Glenn Reynolds quipped, "Maybe there are camps for that?"
Read the rest here.
Posted by Peter Suderman
http://reason.com/blog/2010/08/31/hhs-secretary-sebelius-on-obam
Daily Brickbat
Know Your Place
Brandy Springer says her 12-year-old daughter wanted to run for sixth-grade class reporter at Mississippi's Nettleton Middle School. But she was told the office was reserved for black students only this year. When Springer inquired, she found that class offices are reserved for whites and blacks in alternating years. For instance, only whites will be allowed to run for class reporter next year. After Springer complained, and media reported the story, school officials said they would end the 30-year-old practice.
http://www.reason.com/brickbat/
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