 | | Reason.tv: Author Jeremy Lott on William F. Buckley Jr.'s Faith and Politics
In William F. Buckley Jr., Reason contributor Jeremy Lott delves into the famed public intellectual's life, politics and Catholicism. From the founding of National Review to his opposition to civil rights legislation to his embrace of pot legalization, Lott details how Buckley's religion hugely shaped his political principles.
Lott, the author The Warm Bucket Brigade (a history of the vice presidency) and In Defense of Hypocrisy, sat down with Nick Gillespie to discuss Buckley's Catholicism, communism, and late-life rebranding of himself as a "libertarian journalist."
Click here to watch.
India Follows China's Sporting Folly: New Delhi residents need scholars and sewers not stadiums and auditoriums
The Commonwealth Games concluding in New Delhi last week were supposed to do for India what the Beijing Olympics allegedly did for China: Prove to the world that it had truly arrived. But as Shikha Dalmia explains, through a back-flip and a double twist, it accomplished the opposite-showcased India's dysfunctional side while masking its real strengths.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/10/19/india-follows-chinas-sporting
The Small Business Myth: When the government tries to help small businesses, it hurts businesses (and taxpayers) of all sizes.
In his State of the Union address this year, President Barack Obama announced that "jobs will be our number one focus in 2010, and we're going to start where most new jobs do, with small business." Since then he has proposed and signed a series of targeted tax breaks. The president also asked Congress recently to use $30 billion that had been set aside from the Troubled Asset Relief Program to start a new program providing loans and tax credits to small businesses. But as Contributing Editor Veronique de Rugy explains, when the government tries to help businesses, it hurts businesses (and taxpayers) of all sizes.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/10/19/the-small-business-myth
Hit & Run, Reason's Staff Blog
Prop 19 Madness: Sheriff Baca of Los Angeles Declares Vigilante Justice
Pot use and possession doesn't inherently hurt anyone, and it wouldn't even be illegal anymore under the laws he is supposed to enforce as an agent of a county in the state of California. Still, a dangerous strongman holed up in Southern California who goes by the colorful sobriquet of "L.A . County Sheriff Lee Baca" vows that the armed band at his command will continue to assault, extort, and even kidnap people for using or selling a plant he has an irrational animus against...and he reserves the right, as in all his official actions, to harm or kill you if you continue to resist his commands....
Read the rest here.
Posted by Brian Doherty
http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/19/prop-19-madness-sheriff-baca-o
Daily Brickbat
To Protect and Serve
New York City Police Officer Louis Ramos has been charged with assault, leaving the scene of an accident, and reckless driving after a hit and run involving his patrol car. Ramos drove through a red light with his lights and siren on and struck a bicyclist. He and his partner got out of their car, pulled the cyclist out of the street, handed him a tissue, and drove off without calling an ambulance or reporting the accident.
http://reason.com/brickbat
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