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Unblocking the Box

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President Dreamypants

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Jezebel, the website about lady-things, has this headline up: “Your Morning Swoon: President Obama Sings ‘Sweet Home Chicago.’” Here is some of the writing underneath that headline:Last night, the President and First Lady hosted an all-star b… Continue reading
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Nick Gillespie on Special Stossel on Fox Business This Thursday at 9PM ET

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Last weekend, the great group Students for Liberty held its fifth annual international conference in Washington, D.C. For the second year in a row, John Stossel taped a special episode of his Fox Business show. Here’s the show pitch for tomorrow n… Continue reading
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David Harsanyi on Why Democrats Should Be Happy About High Gas Prices

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Why aren’t Democrats making the case that the spike in prices is a good thing? Isn’t this basically our energy policy these days? How we “win the future”? If high energy prices were to damage President Barack Obama’s re-election prospects, writes… Continue reading
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Aren’t High Gas Prices What Democrats Want?

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If high energy prices were to damage President Barack Obama's re-election prospects, it would be ironic. Continue reading
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The Strategic and Constitutional Problems With Trying to Establish an Acceptable Islam

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Writing in The New York Times, NYU law professor Samuel J. Rascoff, former director of intelligence analysis at the NYPD, questions the government’s “dubious enterprise of trying to shape the beliefs of American Muslims” in an effort to prevent … Continue reading
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How Do You Feel About Bans on Private Discrimination Now?

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The New York Times reports that ”a Supreme Court decision forbidding the use of race in admission at public universities would almost certainly mean that it would be barred at most private ones as well under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of… Continue reading
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Obama Administration Proposes Corporate Tax Overhaul Based on Theory That Loopholes Are Bad and Should Be Replaced With Different Loopholes

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Today, the White House will release a proposal to overhaul the corporate tax code, reducing the top corporate tax rate, currently the second highest amongst developed economies, from 35 percent to 28 percent. The potential gain against internatio… Continue reading
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New at Reason: Nick Gillespie on Getting Contraception Out of the Presidential Race

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“Let’s face it,” writes Nick Gillespie, “long after the term Santorum exists only under vine-covered ruins of safe-search-off Google queries, we’ll still be talking about the beast-with-two-backs in public policy venues. Or at least in JFK-them… Continue reading
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3 Ways to Take Birth Control Out of the Presidential Race

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At least for a few minutes, if not longer… Continue reading
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Gallup Survey: Government Regulations Hinder Small Business Hiring

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Dennis Jacobe, Chief Economist, writes for Gallup: “…lawmakers could place a moratorium on new regulations for some period of time. In turn, this might provide the extra push needed to get small-business owners to decide to hire the empl… Continue reading
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Utah Moves to Clamp Down on “Pimp” Massage Therapists

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Life in Utah is about to get more stressful. The Utah House has just passed a bill (HB 114) that would facilitate crackdowns on unlicensed massage parlors.   Unlike Minnesota, which is trying to deregulate some occupational licenses, Utah wan… Continue reading
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Gay Marriage Opponents File Appeal in Prop. 8 Case

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As Lyle Denniston notes at SCOTUSblog, the backers of California’s Proposition 8, which had amended the state constitution in order to forbid gay marriage, have opted not to appeal their recent loss before a 3-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Co… Continue reading
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A.M. Links: U.N. Nuke Inspectors Frustrated in Iran, Browsers Sue Google for Privacy Violations, Obama to Unveil Tax “Reform” Plan

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U.N. nuke inspectors left Iran Tuesday, declaring they “could not find a way forward.”  Romney catches up to Santorum in Michigan.  Five dead in Afghan Koran protest.  Obama administration mulls lowering corporate tax rate to28 perc… Continue reading
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Jacob Sullum on Obama’s Phony Birth Control ‘Concession’

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President Obama acknowledges “many genuine concerns” about his administration’s requirement that religious organizations pay for health insurance policies that cover contraception and sterilization. He just isn’t willing to address them in a genu… Continue reading
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