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Grounded on Kindle!

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In Robert Farley
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On February 27, 2014
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The Kindle version of Grounded is now available.  If I were you I'd wait until March 11, when you can take advantage of the UPK e-book loyalty program to get both the physical and the electronic copies, but to each his or her own...

Denmark Vesey

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On February 26, 2014

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2010 broke new ground in Confederate nostalgia arguments--defining Denmark Vesey as a terrorist. Global War on Terror indeed. But there's now a Vesey statue up in Charleston, honoring the man.

Today In Sam Alito v. The Fourth Amendment

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that despite a 2006 holding that one person could not consent to a search while another resident refused consent, the police could conduct a warrantless search with the consent of one resident after another that refused consent had been removed from...

Handbags and gladrags

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I have a piece on how the market for college and postgraduate degrees resembles that for Veblen goods. The whole point of paying thousands of dollars for a Louis Vuitton bag is that other people can't. If they could, the bags would instantly lose almost all...

Studying your opponents: cheating.

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Apologies for indulging in some egregious nutpicking, but on those rare occasions when one's team wins a national championship, allowances should be made. Here, noted political analyst Alex Jones explains why the Seahawks studying tape of Peyton Manning constitutes an egregious violation of his 'privacy,' and...
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