Reason Alert: Biden's First Year, Liberating Kids, Transportation Funding, Gun Control, and More

Reason Alert Friday, January 21, 2022     Friday Funnies The government sends out rapid COVID-19 tests.  By Joe Heller Friday Movie Review: The King's Daughter  Many moments too soon.  By Kurt Loder  Remy Video: You Need to Calm Down (Taylor Swift Parody)  Remy can’t shake off his distaste for San Francisco NIMBYs.  By Remy  Joe Biden's Presidency Is Failing Just About Everyone  A year in, he hasn’t lived up to his promises made to either the exhausted center or the progressive base.  By Peter Suderman  President Biden: Year One  Looking back at Biden's first year in office, did anything go quite as planned?  By Natalie Dowzicky  Bad Politicians Think Elections Are Illegitimate if They Don't Like the Winner  Democracy means accepting results you're not happy about.   By J.D. Tuccille  It's Time for Kids Liberation Day  Where omicron plummets, COVID-19 restrictions on our pandemic-damaged children need to end. Let's throw 'em a big party. By Matt Welch  The CDC Is Finally Acknowledging That N95 Respirators Work Better Than Cloth Masks  Why did it take so long?  By Jacob Sullum The Government Hoarded 750 Million N95 Masks While Telling You To Wear One  And now that the omicron variant is in retreat, everyone gets them for free. Great timing, guys.  By Eric Boehm  Ranking How Each State’s Transportation Funding System Aligns With The Users-Pay/Users-Benefit Principle  With direct users-pay funding sources, those who use the highways are the people paying for them.    By Baruch Feigenbaum  RAISE Transportation Grants Go To Non-Transportation Projects in Committee Members’ Congressional Districts  Of the 90 projects funded with Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity grants in 2021, only nine projects (10%) were national in nature.    By Baruch Feigenbaum  Maryland Could Pay Down Some State Pension Debt By Leasing Airport  Long-term airport leases can improve the quality of airport services and provide additional revenue for governments.   By Swaroop Bhagavatula  Gun Control Is Just as Racist as Drug Control  Both public safety strategies are rooted in bigotry and disproportionately harm African Americans.   By Jacob Sullum  Kansas and California Cops Used Civil Forfeiture to Stage Armored Car Heists, Stealing Money Earned by Licensed Marijuana Businesses  The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution.  By Jacob Sullum  Podcast: Bob Corn-Revere: How Today's Censors Hide Behind Science and Psychology  In The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder, the legendary First Amendment lawyer exposes the tricks of today's "anti-free speech movement."  By Nick Gillespie   If this email has been forwarded to you and you would like to subscribe to Reason's email newsletters, please go here. Donate Reason Foundation 5737 Mesmer Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90230, USA Privacy Policy   Manage Your Preferences Unsubscribe - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -