New at Reason.com: Reason TV's Nanny of the Month for September 2010, ObamaCare's First Major Casualties, The Real Monsters in American Politics, and More

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Reason.tv: Busted for Growing Veggies! Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for September 2010 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 everything from sing karaoke, to drink raw milk, and bust a move at ladies night. What could possibly top all that? How about the "Greenest County in America" suing a man for growing too many vegetables in his garden? Presenting Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for September 2010: DeKalb County, Georgia CEO Burrell Ellis! Click here to watch. ObamaCare's First Major Casualties: Why the new health care law is bad for gays and aliens If someone wanted a How-to-Quickly-Lose-Your-Massive-Political-Clout guide, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would certainly be the man to write it. His total inability to defeat Republican demagoguery on Don't Ask Don't Tell and the Dream Act, combined with his role in ObamaCare, has already made this Congress more lame duck than Daffy. "How ironic," notes Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia, "that a president who got elected on the promise of bipartisan comity has produced nothing but partisan rancor. And his signature legislation that was supposed to save America's most vulnerable has begun by throwing them under the bus." http://reason.com/archives/2010/10/04/obamacares-first-major-casualt Scary Monsters: The growth of government threatens freedom much more than mosque-building Muslims do. In his column from our November issue, Editor in Chief Matt Welch explains why the growth of government threatens freedom much more than mosque-building Muslims do. http://reason.com/archives/2010/10/04/scary-monsters Hit & Run, Reason's Staff Blog Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chair Must Go Rajendra Pachauri, the Indian engineer who has headed up the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for 8 years, has failed as a leader of this important scientific and policy organization. The IPCC is tasked with putting together periodic comprehensive reports of the best climate science. In the last year, the world was treated to the unedifying spectacle of the press uncovering ridiculous mistakes in the IPCC's reports, e.g., Himalayan glaciers supposedly melting away by 2035, 40 percent of Amazon forests drying up, and African farm production reduced by 50 percent by 2020. It also didn't help that leaked emails from the prominent Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia showed climate scientists apparently attempting to exclude less alarmist views on climate change from the IPCC reports and trying to circumvent Freedom of Information Act queries.... Read the rest here. Posted by Ronald Bailey http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/04/intergovernmental-panel-on-cli Daily Brickbat Better Things To Do When Chantal Desrosiers accidentally locked her 15-month-old son in her car on a hot day, the owner of the daycare facility she was picking him up from called 911 for help. But the dispatcher in Laval, Canada, told her that police don't respond to locked cars and hung up. Fortunately, Desrosiers' husband showed up about 10 minutes later and knocked a window out of the car. http://reason.com/brickbat Try Reason's award-winning print edition today! Your first issue is FREE if you are not completely satisfied. http://www.reason.com/subscribe

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