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But they claimed they did. Sounds like fraud against the government to me.
Archive for June, 2010
June 15th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
June 15th, 2010
Save the planet with research – or pricing?
June 14th, 2010
Category: Afghanistan
It’s hard to imagine anything worse that could happen in Afghanistan than the discovery of mineral wealth.
June 13th, 2010
Category: Conservatism
Glibertarians can’t tell the difference between owning a chattel and owning a piece of land. They’re not the same, in common sense or common law.
June 12th, 2010
Category: Financial crises
Do state and local layoffs in the teeth of a bad recession sound like good policy to you? Me, neither.
June 11th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Mike Huckabee thinks that what the country needs is more social division and anger over sexual morality. He has a right to his opinion. But as it is written, “Whoso maketh trouble in his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.”
June 10th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
… except for women in the armed forces in combat zones. Republicans and “moderate” Democrats like it that way. Real Democrats think differently, and as if now they have the votes to change things.
June 10th, 2010
Category: High-stakes school testing
It’s as true now as it was eighty years ago, when the W.C. Fields character said it in You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man. But the advocates of high-stakes low-quality standardized testing keep ignoring it.
June 10th, 2010
Category: Climate change
They’re unanimous: letting the planet fry is preferable to letting the EPA do its job under the law.