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Arlington, Virginia, which is where I live:
Though in fairness, as someone comments in response to a namesake of mine on the DCist website, “It’s hard to argue against low taxes, low crime, and clean.” And convenient for getting around on foot, too. I ditched my “mechanical Jacobin” when I moved to my present apartment — [...]
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My verizon contract finally expired today, opening the way for me to buy an iPhone at long last. Naturally one of the first things I downloaded was Wordpress for iphone, of which this post is a test.
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They’re run by an all-powerful international committee, and whatever luckless city hosts the games becomes a police state for the duration. So why exactly is anyone upset that the Olympics are coming to China?
The Onion captures the hysteria:
The Beijing Olympics: Are They A Trap?
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ISI’s big push at the moment is for the Civic Literacy project, which has been garnering quite a bit of coverage, including this piece in USA Today. The project involved testing students (freshmen and seniors) at fifty colleges and universities on their knowledge of elementary U.S. history, civics, foreign policy, and economics. Take the quiz [...]
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More classic truthiness from America’s no. 1 news source, the Onion.
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…consider attending the first event of the Robert A. Taft Club at 7 pm tonight. It'll be a panel discussion on immigration and civil liberties featuring William L. Anderson, Carl Horowitz, James P. Pinkerton, and yours truly.
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This quiz I put together several years back is in need of an update. But outdated though it may be, the "ideology selector" can still be fun. Just fun, though; there's no pretense to scientific accuracy here: like the Psychic Friends Network, this is for entertainment purposes only.
This brief and somewhat typo-marred article — [...]
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