A Stitch in Haste

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Busy couple of days in this last week of a dismal year for gay rights and gay politics.

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This Oregon drug case is not one for the ages. I wanted to highlight it, however, if for no other reason than for the sheer purity of its lesson.

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I am making some modest changes to the blog over the next day or two.

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Recently Paul Krugman wrote the following defense of unbridled Keynesian "stimulus" spending:
[I]f you believe that a surge in private spending would raise employment — and even the critics agree on that — it's very hard to explain why a surge of public spending wouldn't have the same effect.
Elsewhere, he dismissed these critics, butchering a famous [...]

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–Is it a proper function of the federal government to seize the Flight 93 crash site for a memorial?
–Which supposedly free nation is considering slapping content ratings on websites, for the ultimate purpose of restricting access to them?
–Elsewhere, which U.S. city is considering banning happy hour ("any bar or restaurant with a liquor license or [...]

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Let's recall that George W. Bush will not be the first failed president who "limped back to Texas" — http://is.gd/dON6 #
Must-read op-ed by Frank Rich on the Warren pick: http://tinyurl.com/9q5yda #
"The virtue of the new Klaatu is that he points us back to the original." Stated differently, the new Klaatu sucks. http://snipr.com/96sf3 #

Note: The [...]

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Time to clean out the aggregator:
ITEM: The Washington Post ran a feature article noting how property taxes in the capital region are not declining despite plummeting home prices. I have repeatedly called for separating tax rates from market values and instead relying on the actual structure and characteristics of the property, rather than its (presumed) [...]

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