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Bill Clinton’s History Lesson
“We champion the cause for which our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor— to form a more perfect union. If that’s what you believe, if that’s what you want, we have to...
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Alexander Hamilton’s Natural Law Reading List
“If you will follow my advice, there still may be hopes of your reformation. Apply yourself, without delay, to the study of the law of nature. I would recommend to your perusal, Grotius, Puffendorf,...
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Don’t Bother Watching: Barack’s Campaign Concedes First Debate to Mitt
You heard it here first. Actually, second. Via InstaP: Obama campaign deputy manager Stephanie Cutter: “[W]e’re coming into this debate very realistic that Mitt Romney is likely to win if he plays his...
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Din’t Catch the Debate But Tellya Who Won
As it is the wife-unit’s birthday today, I took her out to a long overdue movie, some recreational shopping at the second-hand store and then to the dollar mart. And as she’s not the political-talk...
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History Flashback: Mandate 1992!
43.0% popular vote 370-168 electoral votes 55.2% turnout Senate [+1 Dem to 57-43] House [-9 to the GOP, still way Dem 258-176] Discuss. Mandate for what? Bonus question: 1994. WTF is a “Gingrich,”...
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Book Report 2012
While the little one made 2012 a light blogging year, I tried to keep up with my book list as a consolation. Past book reports are here: 2011; 2010; and 2009. 1. The Death and Life of the Great...
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Customer Feedback, Week 2: “Where Are the Republicans?”
[Lay impressions on the week’s politics for the benefit of hypothetical GOP leaders looking to know whether and how the week’s political messaging went over. More information about this series can be...
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Customer Feedback, Week 3
[Lay impressions on the week’s politics for the benefit of hypothetical GOP leaders looking to know whether and how the week’s political messaging went over. More information about this series can be...
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How do you interpret a constitution?
The biggest cause of confusion faced by Originalists—the folks who think the Constitution means what it originally did in the late 1700s—isn’t the one you’d probably guess at first. You’d probably...
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