Well-regulated, part 3


Well-regulated, part 3 Following up on the two previous posts– As written earlier, as often as we hear about “the second amendment” in the public discourse, we seldom hear the phrase “well regulated.” The first is a slogan for banners and bumper stickers; the second is being obliterated. But the framers of the constitution included [...]

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“Well regulated,” part 2: Strict constructionism means paid lobbyists?


“Well regulated,” part 2: Strict constructionism means paid lobbyists? Picking up where the previous post left off– “Well regulated” was praise in this country at the time America was born. For eighteenth-century American colonists, well-regulated was everything the ridiculous Georges on the English throne were not. The Swiftian, satire-worthy courts under the British kings were [...]

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Well regulated currency


Well regulated currency The ordinariness of “well regulated” in eighteenth-century America The following is a quick, representative list of American newspapers before and after the Revolutionary War explicitly recommending, or reminding of the need for, a “well regulated currency”: New England Weekly Journal (Boston, Mass.) February 4, 1734. Issue CCCLVIII, page 1. “Money well regulated [...]

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Bullying in Higher Education


Bullying in Higher Education Workplace bullying can occur at any workplace, including a university. Any employee can be a target, including college and university faculty. If you are a target of workplace bullying, you may not even recognize the behaviors at first (see below). Furthermore, employees who are bullied are not often targeted because of [...]

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More on the Romney campaign’s internal polling


Romney internal polling–myopia rather than rose-colored glasses I don’t call these post-mortems, but in this election follow-up, The New Republic has disclosed some useful information. The gist is that Mitt Romney’s campaign thought it was likely to win because internal polling at the end said so. The Romney team’s own last-minute projections for six key [...]

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Grover Norquist Lost


Obama won, Grover Norquist lost 2012 election results are in, and Obama won. President Obama should also win Florida. That means an electoral college tally of 332-206. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which spent at least $28 million against Democrats, lost.   American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, which spent $1 billion against the president and [...]

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Mitt Romney and taxes, the last word


The last word on special tax deductions for filers like Mitt Romney [Update Mon. Nov. 5 Actually the last word on Romney's taxes may be this Dutch article of today. The Volksrant reports that Romney lessened his tax pay-up by almost a hundred million Euros, by using tax mechanisms routed through the Netherlands as written [...]

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Romney arithmetic and Staples


Romney arithmetic and Staples Divorce folklore abounds with stories about men trying to offshore assets, so to speak; dark hints about bank accounts concealed or moved abroad, about the plaintiff’s attorney being bought off by job offers or other means, about property liquidated for pennies on the dollar. Most such lore seems more suited for [...]

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Where was this foreign-policy Romney in the GOP primaries?


Etch-a-Sketching Middle East policy In pre-debate discussion on CurrentTV last night, former Vice President Al Gore speculated that Mitt Romney would need to avoid the pitfall of “too much endless war.” I wrote in my notes that “R will prob know how to avoid that one.” Did he ever. Whether Romney knew how best to avoid [...]

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In honor of Sunday morning, a prediction about Sunday morning


In honor of Sunday morning, a prediction about Sunday morning It’s Sunday morning, and we can expect that today’s morning talk shows will not be terse about the much-touted close and/or ‘tightening’ election. Close election is the moral indifferents’ ground game. It was their calling card; now it is their mantra. If it happens, it [...]

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