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Roscoe Filburn conservatism

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In 1941 Roscoe Filburn accepted large federal subsidies, receiving far-above-market prices for his commodities, in exchange for agreeing to limit his production to a robust 11 acres. He then proceeded to plant 23 acres, and (not very plausibly) asserted that he didn't intend to sell any...
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The NLRB and Graduate Student Unions

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I was genuinely shocked that the Trump National Labor Relations Board didn't target graduate student unions at private institutions sooner than it did. For several presidencies now, Democrats have ruled that graduate students are workers and Republicans have ruled that they not. After the Obama NLRB...
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“Clean Coal”

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Clean coal may be the most absurd right-wing euphemism since right to work. There ain't nothing clean about clean coal. It's nasty and horrible. And in fact, it may actually increase pollution: Following the emergence of evidence that power plants using a chemically treated coal—purportedly designed...
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