Month: November 2014

Drop That 35 Jobs Talking Point

I know that opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline love to use the talking point that the project will only create 35 permanent jobs, all aimed at maintaining it. It strikes me as a ridiculous figure, however, and if true a major...

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NSA Debate Brings Bad Guys to the Fore

On Monday, the executive office of the president urged the U.S. Senate to pass the USA Freedom Act, a bill marked up by Senator Patrick Leahy’s Judiciary Committee. The bill is intended to rein in the National Security...

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Shameless Self-Promotion: Virginia Tour

Looks like I woke up before BooMan, so here’s a little shameless self-promotion to go with your morning coffee. I’m heading south in a couple of hours for an all-too brief tour through Virginia and West Virginia with...

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We Are So Dumb

How moronic does a society have to be to agree to pay taxes to keep people in jail who don’t need to be there but not to pay taxes for actual firefighters? In California, they are arguing that they can’t release...

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