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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Michigan is using debtor's prison to give unemployed fathers an un-merry Christmas. If you owe "child support," and you don't pay, you can go to jail. (A/G Mike Cox makes a big deal out of this. He's
running for Governor.) No one cares if you're behind because you are among the ...
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
Now Roman is to Roman
More Hateful than a Foe,
And the Tribunes beard the High,
And the Fathers grind the Low
-Lord Macaulay,
Lays of Ancient Rome, xxxiii
Seeing the law as a 'living document,' versus strict construction of the text, is not new, nor is it, sui generis, an American phenomenon. America's Founding ...
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
Dear Congressman:
Greetings. I hope that you are enjoying time with your family, away from politics, this Thanksgiving. When Congress resumes its' business, I urge you to lead the House in conducting an agonizing reappraisal of the so-called "Cap and Trade" bill. agonizing, because so many treat man-made ...
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
This weekend, members of one of Gen. Patton's units gather for the last time to remember their service, which stretched from Utah Beach to liberating a concentration camp at the end of the war. Nothing I write can add anything to this story, so I will close by giving this ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
CNN has a nifty little poll asking web surfers to grade Obama's Administration. I gave him an F, naturally.
After giving your grade, the site asks you your state, and then shows you a map of the United States. As you run your cursor over the map, each state ...
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