reason.com - 10/29/2008
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The New York Times edit board is suddenly very concerned with the North Carolina ballot, as 1) long ago, Dixiecrats exempted the presidential race from the button that lets you vote straight ticket and 2) Obama is narrowly ahead in the polls there. This year, North Carolina’s flawed ballot ...
stubbornfacts.us - 10/31/2008
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stubbornfacts.us —
Happy Friday, folks. (I've never done a jack
o' lantern before, but I figured that if creative,...
talented people could do this and these , surely I could manage a simple, traditional one.)
(more)
Happy Halloween
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Overlawyered —
... courts [NLJ, NYT, Steven Calabresi @ WSJ]
Don’t even think of using “the cash machine legal clinic” as your slogan if Louisiana implements tough new lawyer-ad rules [New Orleans City Business]
Our long national slide toward “election by litigation” [Hillyer, D.C. Examiner] Plus: America’s Most Irresponsible Public Figure® RFK Jr. emerges as “election law huckster” [Weigel, Reason "Hit and Run"]
While privacy laws ratchet ever tighter on private ...
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