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Make Congress Great Again
Posted on June 21, 2016
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Should Donald Trump win the White House, which at this point seems rather unlikely, one unexpected benefit would be the resurgent power of the...
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Feehery: Trump’s war on Muslims
Posted on June 16, 2016
(Also Published in The Hill) “Sikhs are not Muslim.” A couple of months after the 9/11 attacks, a delegation of Sikh-Americans met with my former boss, then-Speaker of the House...
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Bringing the Marketplace to Consumer Rail
Posted on June 14, 2016
On the one hand, you have Uber and the generally free-market approach to the freight rail industry. On the other hand, you have Amtrak and Washington’s Metro system. Which works...
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Orlando Exposes Threats to the First Amendment
Posted on June 13, 2016
America’s First Amendment to the Constitution is unique. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,...
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On Work and Play
Posted on June 9, 2016
According to Wikipedia: “The term work was introduced in 1826 by the French mathematician Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis[1][2] as “weight lifted through a height”, which is based on the use of early...
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