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Arguing With Idiots (We all know who you are)
November 13, 2009 in Humor
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NPR and the “tyranny of constituency”
June 26, 2010 in Elections
I have been re-reading quite a few of the Federalist Papers for the constitutingamerica.org project and for a summer class I am teaching on the Foundations of the Constitution. A recurrent theme therein is the…
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Daily Briefing 06/26/10
June 26, 2010 in Daily Briefing
First Alvin Greene in South Carolina; now this. A Congressional candidate in Texas wants to impeach President Obama and, during the campaign, carried an oversized picture of the President with a Hitler-style moustache. Obviously, this is the type…
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Laugh it off!
June 24, 2010 in Humor
Iowahawk’s occasional guest columnist T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII returns, somewhat chastened over his earlier gushing and fawning over Barack Obama. “Each day seems to introduce some new crisis on the world scene with hint…
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Alexander Hamilton on tax policy
June 24, 2010 in History-American
Why are certain basic economic proposition known to everyone but Democratic (and unacceptably many Republican) politicians? Here is Alexander Hamilton, writing more than two hundred years ago about the usefulness and limitations of consumption taxes. Hi…
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Daily Briefing 06/24/10
June 24, 2010 in Daily Briefing
The Supreme Court has unanimously decided three federal “honest services” fraud cases by (rightly) limiting such cases to bribery and kickbacks, as intended by Congress when the law was drafted, rather than the more…







