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Thug Life

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Item: The word "thug" was uttered on American TV 675 times yesterday, the most times in one day in at least three years. — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 21, 2014 But this is understandable -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned us about this kind of thing. And...

Regulating West Virginia

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Why doesn't West Virginia have decent environmental regulations? Because the state legislature has to approve each one! West Virginia imposes an unusual hurdle for its Department of Environmental Protection: Regulations it writes are not enforceable until approved by the Legislature, giving lawmakers influenced by lobbyists a...

Pipelines vs. Trains

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As another oil train is dangling over a railroad bridge in Philadelphia, some wonder whether pipelines or trains are better for transporting oil. The answer from available evidence in the United States seems that the difference is fairly negligible. Including major derailments in Alabama and North...

Scab Cereal

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Time to avoid Frosted Flakes and Fruit Loops, since Kellogg's has locked out the workers making the cereal at its Memphis factory and instead bused in scabs through an Ohio.

Liberalism is Not the Security State

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You may remember Sean Wilentz's decision to invest his earned reputation as a historian into political punditry during the 2008 presidential campaign. This was profoundly unfortunate, since the underlying premise of said punditry seemed to be that Mark Penn was right about everything but was excessively...
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