Considering how serious last week's CuteTuber™ video was, and how serious my next blogpost is, I thought it might be a good idea to go through my stash of videos and pick the most lighthearted for this week's CuteTuber™. And I ended up crashing straight into Kip's Law:
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…and T. Boone Pickens has taken a flying Jedi leap right over it: Roberts County, Texas, sits atop the Ogallala Aquifer, a huge underground reservoir that stretches all the way to South Dakota. It's in Roberts County that T. Boone Pickens set aside eight acres from his ranch for drilling deep into the aquifer. Then [...]
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To review: The only incursion upon property rights worse than private-for-private eminent domain (such as that shamefully sanctioned by Kelo v. New London) is landmarks preservation. At least with eminent domain, a soon-to-be-former property owner receives "just compensation" for the incursion upon his rights by the majoritarian mob. With historic preservation, however, the mob doesn't [...]
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Ezra Klein once again unleashes his remarkably adolescent intellect upon the blogosphere: This is getting a little crazy. Responding to the South Los Angeles's new ordinance imposing a one-year moratorium on the construction of new fast food restaurants, William Saletan says, "We're not talking anymore about preaching diet and exercise, disclosing calorie counts, or restricting [...]
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