Archive for the ‘DC’ Category
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The Limits of Direct Democracy
Posted on November 6, 2014
I couldn’t do it. Despite talking a big game about being for pot legalization, when I had the chance to vote for the policy, I voted no. It didn’t matter. ...
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Innocence Lost
Posted on October 23, 2014
Like foreshadowing in a dark novel, three years before the attacks on September 11, 2001, a lone gunman walked into the document door of the United States Capitol, pulled out...
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The Common Thread Between the Soda Tax and the Yoga Tax
Posted on October 9, 2014
On one side of the country, in the People’s Republic of Berkley, the city council there is trying to raise taxes on soda pop. On the other side of the...
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The Beards of Summer
Posted on August 25, 2014
I shaved my beard the day I got home from vacation. It wasn’t much of a beard, to be honest. But it was a start....
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Boehner’s Blunder or Barack’s Brush-Back
Posted on July 11, 2014
If I were a constitutional lawyer, I would find Speaker of the House John Boehner’s impending lawsuit against President Obama completely fascinating. I am not a lawyer, so I can’t...
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