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Selected Investigative Resources - amazon.com:<BR>
By David Harsanyi<BR>
Nanny State: Hose Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children, by David Harsanyi (Hardcover - Sep 18, 2009. New $24.95 used and new from $5.43.<BR>
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By Radley Balko<BR>
Radley Balko<BR>
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<BR>
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Radley Balko (born April 19, 1975 in Greenfield, Indiana) is an American libertarian writer, and speaker.<BR>
Employment and publications<BR>
Balko is senior editor at Reason magazine. Previously, he was a policy analyst for the Cato Institute, specializing in vice and civil liberties issues. He writes on drug policy, police misconduct, obesity, alcohol and tobacco, and civil liberties. He also writes on trade and globalization issues and more generally on politics and culture. He is also a biweekly columnist for Fox News. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Playboy, TIME magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Reason, Worth magazine, Canada's National Post, and the Chicago Tribune. He blogs at The Agitator, his personal weblog, and for Reason's Hit & Run blog. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and National Public Radio.[1]<BR>
Balko's work on "no-knock" drug raids was profiled in The New York Times, and cited by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in his dissent in the case Hudson v. Michigan. He is also credited with breaking and reporting the Cory Maye case. His work on the Maye case was also cited by the Mississippi Supreme Court. He has also written extensively about the Ryan Frederick case and the raid on Cheye Calvo's home.<BR>
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Education<BR>
Balko earned a B.A. in journalism and political science in 1997 from Indiana University.<BR>
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Articles (from www.amazon.com):<BR>
Death by SWAT: collateral raid damage: An article from: Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Jan 5, 2009) - HTML. Buy: $9.95. Available for Download<BR>
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Curb your enthusiasm: moralists left and right want to control your carnal desire. (Don’t Eat This Book: Fast Good and the Su[persizing of America: An article from Reason by Radley Balko. (Digital - Feb 28, 2006 - HTML. Buy $5.95. Available for download. download<BR>
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Government goons murder puppies! The drug war goes to the dogs. (drug raids): An article from: Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Mar 22, 2006. Buy: $5.95 download<BR>
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CSI: Mississippi: a case study in expert testimony gone horribly wrong. (crime scene investigation) (Case study): An article from: Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Jan 28, 2008 - HTML. Buy: $9.95. Available for download<BR>
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The case of Cory Maye: a cop is dead, an innocent man may be on death row, and drug warriors keep knocking down doors: An article from Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Mar 6, 2007) - HTML. Buy: $9.95. Available for download now.<BR>
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Don’t drink the water: the politics of rain: An article from: Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Oct 31, 2008) - HTML. Buy: $9.95. Available for download now.<BR>
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The National Mall goes kitsch: America’s cluttered backyard shows just how hard it is for Congress to say "no" (memorials): An article from: Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Jan wr, 2007) - HTML. Buy: $9.95. Available for download now.<BR>
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Who killed Paypal: "Consumer advocates" can make life miserable for consumers. (The PayPal Wars: Battles With eBay, the Media, the Mafia and the Rest of…Earth)(Book Review): An article from: Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Feb 4, 2006) - HTML. Buy: $5.95. Available for download now.<BR>
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Innocence denied: DNA testing stalled: An article from: Reason by Radley Balko (Digital-Dec 1, 2008) - HTML. Buy: $9.95. Available for download now.<BR>
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How the wolves survive: Los Lobos’ Louie Perez on immigration, cultural mixing, and his band’s new album. (Culture and Reviews) (Interview): An article from: Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Jul 14, 2007) HTML<BR>
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Let my students drink. (Soundbite) (alcohol drinking in college students)(Interview): An article from Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Jan 27, 2009) - HTML. Buy: $9.95. Available for download now.<BR>
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Transparency in action. (Artifact): An article from: Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Jan 5, 2009) - HTML. Buy $9.95. Available for download now.<BR>
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Cory Maye: off death row, but still fighting for justice. (Follow-up): An article from Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Oct 31, 2008) - HTML. Buy $9.95. Available for download now.<BR>
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Getting beyond Roe: why returning abortion to the states is a good idea. (Jane Roe) (Critical essay): An article from Reason by Radley Balko (Digital - Jul 14, 2007) - HTML. Buy: $9.95. Available for download now.<BR>
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Reason magazine:<BR>
Reason is a libertarian monthly magazine from the Reason Foundation.<BR>
Reason was founded in 1968 by Lanny Friedlander as a more-or-less monthly mimeographed publication. In 1970 it was purchased by Robert W. Poole, Manuel S. Klausner, and Tibor R. Machan , who set it on a more regular publishing schedule. As the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets", it covers politics, culture, and ideas with a mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews.<BR>
Matt Welch has been the magazine's editor-in-chief since 2008. Other Reason writers include Jacob Sullum, Jesse Walker, Brian Doherty, Ronald Bailey, Radley Balko, Tim Cavanaugh, Kerry Howley, David Weigel, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Michael C. Moynihan, Damon Root, Greg Beato, Cathy Young, Jonathan Rauch, and cartoonist Peter Bagge. Former editors include Nick Gillespie, Marty Zupan, and Virginia Postrel.<BR>
Erik Spiekermann, the inventor of the typeface Meta, headed a redesign of Reason in 2001, aiming for a look that is "cleaner, more modern, making use of the Meta typeface throughout".<BR>
In June 2004, subscribers to Reason magazine received a personalized issue that had their name, and a satellite photo of their home or workplace on the cover.<BR>
The magazine has a circulation of around 60,000 and has twice been named one of the "50 best magazines" by the Chicago Tribune.[1]<BR>
In 2008, Reason's web site, reason.com, was named a Webby Award Honoree in the magazine category.[2]<BR>
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Hit and Run<BR>
>From Wikipedia<BR>
Hit & Run is Reason's group blog. It is maintained and written by the staff of the magazine. It was started in 2002. Former Reason Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie and Reason Web Editor Tim Cavanaugh, both veterans of Suck.com , modeled the blog in some ways after that website: they brought along several other Suck.com writers to contribute, fostered a style in the blog matching that former website's sarcastic attitude, and even the name "Hit & Run" was taken from what had been a weekly news roundup column on Suck.com. The Reason editors referred to this co-opting of the former website as the "Suck-ification of Reason."[3]<BR>
In 2005, Hit & Run was named as one of the best political blogs by Playboy.[4]<BR>
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