Month: December 2016

Duck and Cover Won’t Save Us

The American electorate made a pretty bad mistake on November 8th, as becomes more and more obvious everyday. In fairness, most of the people who showed up to vote expressed a preference for the person who didn’t win, but...

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Make Congress Great Again

Lee Drutman has a new piece up at Vox that hits at a theme he’s been promoting for a while now, including in an article he did for our June/July/August 2015 issue. To understand his basic point, it’s helpful to look...

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The Shafting of the UK

Irish TV news showed a clip of EU leaders gathering for their last summit of 2016 yesterday.  All were busily chatting to one another – except one:  Teresa May stood there awkwardly, looking for someone to talk...

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Rules to Be Deregulated–GOP

Mark Meadows (R-NC11) published this on the Tarheel Tea Party web site.  It is the House Freedom Caucus proposal First 100 Days: Rules, Regulations, and Executive Orders to Examine, Revoke and Issue. Quite sweeping. Now the...

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Dylann Roof Shouldn’t Die

In the federal case against him, Dylann Roof was just convicted on all thirty-three charges. He will attempt to defend himself (without the assistance of attorneys) during the penalty phase of the trial. He already tried and...

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