Sunday, July 22, 2007

Preliminary MUHS Reunion Report

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There is far too much information to process and far too many photographs to sort through, but I thought I would post a few pictures today -...
Saturday, July 21, 2007

Front Page News

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The celebration by the Marquette University High School community of the institution's 150th anniversary made the front page of the Milw...
Monday, July 16, 2007

"Thank You for Loitering"

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It was something of a pilgrimage. D.C.'s Maryland suburbs are something of a mystery to me, with names like "Bladensburg" and...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Fascinating Rhythm

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On this day seventy years ago, George Gershwin died at the age of 38. I was alerted to this sad anniversary by today's entry in Joe Stol...

Harry Potter: Economic Dynamo

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With the impending release of both the fifth movie and seventh book in the Harry Potter series, interest in the boy-turned-adolescent wizard...

Cost of Government Day 2007

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In his opinion in the 1904 Supreme Court case, Compania de Tabacos v. Collector , Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that “Taxes are what w...
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Saturday, July 07, 2007

Point/Counterpoint on Hate Crimes Laws

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Today's Richmond Times-Dispatch features two articles on the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007. Dyana Mason of ...
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

July 4th Report from Monticello

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Today, being the Fourth of July, was marked at the home of Thomas Jefferson with Monticello's 45th annual Independence Day Celebration a...
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America's Elites and the Drug War

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The AP and other news sources are reporting that the son of former Vice President Al Gore has been arrested on drug charges. As posted on th...
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Free Speech and Irony

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Only in America -- or perhaps only in New York City: A man was arrested in New York only days before we celebrate the anniversary of the Dec...

Comparing U.S. and European Buying Power

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The Classically Liberal blog today has an excellent, comprehensive article comparing costs of living and purchasing power for American and...
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Sunday, July 01, 2007

The Libertarian Voting Bloc

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Using the generally accepted (but not fastidious) definition of "libertarian" as "socially liberal and fiscally conservative,...
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Mr. Popularity

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Tyler Whitney should get himself a Hollywood agent. In the two weeks since I first blogged about the young gay conservative activist from Mi...
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Aujourd'hui le Canada a 140 ans

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Happy birthday to our friends north of the 48th parallel! Today marks the 140th anniversary of the British North America Act, which joined t...
Saturday, June 30, 2007

The Trouble with VERIS

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Virginia's new statewide voter-registration database is in trouble. To be truthful, the system (called "VERIS") has been troub...
Friday, June 29, 2007

Immigration and Identity

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Given the vexatious debate about immigration policy that shows no signs of abating in this country, I was fascinated to find an article in t...

Scenes from a Debate Season

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This past Sunday's Washington Post included an Outlook section article about the relatively new debate program in District of Columbia ...
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