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Fully cognizant of the fact that I have a terrible habit of “refusing to let go” in arguments, I’ll be making this my last statement on the NSA issue, and holding myself to a two-reply rule from this point on, for my own sanity’s sake. All I want to do is address a few...
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“Michael” gave the following comment to my previous post, raising issues with the “libertarian slippery slope” argument (as if Conservatives have never used slippery slope arguments before): “Are you really posing this question seriously?” Sigh. No, not in the sense that you assume. I don’t actually think that the government is going to attempt...
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Pat Ford sez: Many of those who would in one breath decry the abuse of government powerin halting gay marriages in the next breath would equally decry the abuse ofgovernment power in authorizing the NSA wiretapping policy… or would decryThe Patriot Act as pseudo-fascistic abuse of power. But in all of thesecases the blanket...
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I don’t know who you are, but you know who you are. You’ve pulled the fire alarm in Mitchell, what, 6 times in the past two weeks? Always between 1 and 5 am. Creative. I realize that there are no security cameras to catch you pulling the fire alarm. But that just means that...
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Stuart Smalley runs for the Senate. I loved his early work, but the routine is getting old.
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Today is Valentine’s Day and, as anyone with a Facebook account at GWU must know, our student body was preparing to celebrate the holiday of love in the strange way that those professing to be “politically active” often do: by protesting. What’s important, though, is what actually went down on campus today—almost nothing at...
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