Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Best Campaign Reform: Raise the Contributions Ceiling

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This week the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in one case involving campaign finance (from Arizona) and chose not to review another cas...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

May 24, 1981

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Five years ago, in anticipation of my 25-year college reunion at Georgetown University, I wrote a blog post called " May 29, 1981 ,...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Governor Gary Johnson Plays 'Not My Job' on NPR

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Gary Johnson in Charlottesville " Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me! " is a weekly quiz show on NPR stations, usually broadcast ...

Four Music Videos for the Rapture that Didn't Happen

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Reports from beyond the International Dateline suggest that Harold Camping was wrong again .  There were no earthquakes or tsunamis or aster...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Waiting for the Rapture? May 21 Is Just Days Away

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The unusually wet and rainy May weather has a lot of us feeling chilly this week. A good number of our fellow humans are, at the same time...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

PVCC's 2011 Commencement Exercises at UVA's JPJ

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After a fast-moving thunderstorm drenched the afterparty of last year's outdoor commencement ceremonies at Piedmont Virginia Community ...
Monday, May 09, 2011

Is There a Litmus Test for Conservative Republicans?

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In April, it was announced by the American Conservative Union that Christopher Malagisi had been hired as the new director of CPAC (the an...

Friedrich Hayek: 19th-Century-Born Video Star of the 21st Century

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Sunday's New York Times featured a book review by Francis Fukuyama of a new edition of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek's The C...
Friday, May 06, 2011

Arthur Laurents Remembered

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News of the death of Broadway playwright , librettist , director -- and novelist , memoirist , and screenwriter -- Arthur Laurents sent me...