That sense of dread you felt this morning on the subway wasn't just a nicotine craving or the desire to buy a handgun at a gun show: it was the black boot of fascism bearing down on your pallid, barcode-stamped, overtaxed neck. George Mason University's libertarian think tank the Mercatus Center has ranked New York State dead last in its "Freedom in the 50 States" index, calling it "by far the least free state in the Union." Granted the report didn't count Puerto Rico, Guam, or the other Micronesian state the US annexes, Hitlerville. more ›

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The New York Times coverage of September 11, 2003 and their A Nation Challenged section more ›