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Reason.tv: Timothy Sandefur on The Right to Earn A Living "The rational basis test was basically concocted out of thin air by the Progressive movement, gradually, but applied to American law with no constitutional basis. That's why you have cases like [the eminent-domain case] Kelo or these licensing restrictions that prohibit people from earning an honest living." So says Pacific Legal Foundation attorney and author, Timothy Sandefur, who sat down with Reason.tv to discuss his book The Right to Earn a Living. The "rational basis" review grew out of a 1938 Supreme Court case and essentially argues that as long as a government action can be "rationally tied" to a "legitimate" government interest, anything goes. 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 Philosophy and Consequences: Liberty and good public policy are not the same thing. The cover of Libertarianism, from A to Z , by the Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, offers to "take the reader beyond the mere surface of libertarian thought to reveal the philosophy's underlying-and compelling-logic." In a review essay from our October issue, Tom G. Palmer of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation examines whether or not Miron's book delivers on this promise. http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/27/philosophy-and-consequences Our Non-War Over Islam: Tolerance and assimilation are the real story. If you arrived here from Mars in the last couple of months and watched a lot of TV news, you would quickly reach this conclusion: Americans hate Muslims, and Muslims hate America. Yet as Steve Chapman writes, nothing could be further from the truth. Americans generally see Muslims as just one more ingredient in the national melting pot. And Muslims mostly identify with our way of life. http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/27/our-non-war-over-islam Hit & Run, Reason's Staff Blog Feds Frustrated With Their Inability to Wiretap This Here New-Fangled Internet Thing The federal government knows you're Skyping. And Blackberrying. And chat-rooming. And peer-to-peer communicating. And otherwise trading messages, perhaps encrypted, on the Interwebz. But it doesn't always have the ability to intercept your digital-era communications or figure out what, exactly, you're saying. And so, as Jesse Walker noted in today's morning links, law enforcement authorities are readying new legislation to change that.... Read the rest here. Posted by Peter Suderman http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/27/obama-administration-frustrate Daily Brickbat Guilty Until Proven Innocent In 1996, Tacoma, Washington, police arrested David Andrews for felony drug possession. Four months later, a judge tossed out the charge, citing insufficient evidence. In 2007, the state hired him as a network technician in its Department of Information. Three months after that, his supervisors fired him after a background check revealed the 1996 arrest. Under state rules, if he'd actually gone to trial on the drug charge and been acquitted, he could have kept his job. But since the charge was dismissed, he could not. Andrews sued the agency but lost, and rather than appeal the decision, he accepted a settlement. http://reason.com/brickbat

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