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Radley Balko

Opinion and Commentary

"There's No Way to Enforce a Texting While Driving Ban," U.S. News & World Report (Online), October 13, 2009

"Drug War Casualties Left Behind," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 6, 2006

"Fighting Terror Five Years Later," Fox News (Online), September 4, 2006

"Wrong Door," by Radley Balko and Joel Berger, The Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2006

"Drug War Police Tactics Endanger Innocent Citizens," Fox News (Online), July 21, 2006

"Government May Be Cause, Not Solution, to Gen Y Economic Woes," Fox News (Online), July 12, 2006

"Stop Doing What I Said," TCSdaily.com, June 23, 2006

"Supreme Court Ruling on Police Raids Endangers Citizens," Fox News (Online), June 21, 2006

"Buffalo's Stampede Against Privacy," Reason (Online), June 21, 2006

"eBay Invites Internet Regulation, Backs Online Gambling Ban," Fox News (Online), June 7, 2006

"Raiding Reality," National Review (Online), May 31, 2006

"Nanny State Makes Poor Babysitter for Americans," Fox News (Online), May 24, 2006

"In Virginia, the Death Penalty for Gambling," Fox News (Online), May 1, 2006

"The Drug War Goes to the Dogs," Reason (Online), April 6, 2006

"No SWAT," Slate, April 6, 2006

"George Mason University, Much More Than Basketball," Fox News (Online), March 29, 2006

"GOP Misses Mark on Internet Gambling Ban," Fox News (Online), March 15, 2006

"Anti-Gambling Crusade a Bad Bet," Arizona Republic, March 12, 2006

"Railroaded Onto Death Row?," Fox News (Online), February 15, 2006

"Curb Your Enthusiasms," Reason (Online), February 10, 2006

"Overkill: The Latest Trend in Policing," Cato.org, February 5, 2006

"2005: The Farce of Freedom?," Fox News (Online), January 4, 2006

"Does Obesity Justify Big Government?," The Freeman, December 1, 2005

"Living Large: We've Been Misled about the Real Threat Posed by the 'Obesity Crisis'," Worth, December 1, 2005

"Forum: Lower DUI Threshold More Dangerous?," Washington Times, October 30, 2005

"Sick," National Review (Online), October 24, 2005

"When Drunk Driving Deterrence Becomes Neo-Prohibition," Fox News (Online), October 5, 2005

"The Ultimate 'Public Health' Shield," Cato.org, September 14, 2005

"When the Catastrophe Is Government," Fox News (Online), September 7, 2005

"Zero Tolerance Makes Zero Sense," Cato.org, August 9, 2005

"Justice Often Served by Jury Nullification," Fox News (Online), August 1, 2005

"Doing It for the Children," Cato.org, July 11, 2005

"An Excess of Power," Fox News (Online), July 4, 2005

"Restricting Cold Medicine Won't Curb Meth Use," Fox News (Online), June 16, 2005

"The Living Poem to Capitalism," Cato.org, May 31, 2005

"Health Riskers Ought to Pay," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 16, 2005

"In the Reign of Cotton Mather," Forbes, May 9, 2005

"Bush Should Feel Doctors' Pain," Cato.org, April 5, 2005

"Another Victim of the Drug War," Freeman, April 1, 2005

"Drivers' Rights Abused in a Flash," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 23, 2005

"Don't Blame SpongeBob for Child Obesity," Fox News (Online), February 21, 2005

"Don't Ban Smoking - Does Virginia Really Want To Be more Restrictive than Washington?," DC Examiner, February 16, 2005

"Private Matters and 'Public Health'," Cato.org, February 6, 2005

"War on Drugs -- and the Bill of Rights," Fox News (Online), January 27, 2005

"Attack of the Killer Tomato Snobs," Cato.org, January 23, 2005

"Colt Following," Cato.org, January 5, 2005

"Big Shrimp: A Protectionist Mess," Cato.org, January 3, 2005

"2004: The Good News," Fox News (Online), December 30, 2004

"Altruism? Bah, Humbug," Apple Daily, December 22, 2004

"The Drug War Toll Mounts," Cato.org, December 2, 2004

"Big Reasons for Fat Skepticism," Cato.org, December 2, 2004

"Trimming Waistlines by Trimming Government," by Michael F. Cannon and Radley Balko, Cato.org, October 27, 2004

"Fat Scare Leads to Government Girth," Fox News (Online), August 6, 2005

"Before Feds Invade Your Kitchen, Anti-Fat Funding Should Be Voted On," Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2004

"Drunk Driving Laws Are Out of Control," Cato.org, July 27, 2004

"Supreme Court's Porn Ruling Could Work Elsewhere," Cato.org, July 9, 2004

"The "War" Against Obesity," National Post, June 16, 2004

"Puffing for Property Rights," Cato.org, June 13, 2004

"Government Has No Business Interfering With What You Eat," TIME, June 7, 2004

"What You Eat Is Your Business," Cato.org, May 23, 2004

"Beyond Personal Responsibility," Cato.org, May 17, 2004

"Bill Wilson and the Drug War," National Review (Online), May 17, 2004

"Hike in Cigarette Tax Opens Door to Other Vices," Chicago Sun-Times, April 7, 2004

"Who's Outsourcing Whom?," Cato.org, March 18, 2004

"The States of Employment," National Review (Online), March 9, 2004

"Government Gets Fat Fighting Obesity," Fox News (Online), February 26, 2004

"The States and Outsourcing," Cato.org, February 9, 2004

"All Politics Is Local," Cato.org, January 14, 2004

"A Toast to the Holiday?," Washington Times, January 1, 2004

"Thank You for Not Drinking . . . In the Bar," Chicago Sun-Times, December 5, 2003

"Who Killed PayPal?," Reason (Online), August 27, 2005

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