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Naturally.

Naturally the next time we come out onto the Mall and see the finish line of a race awaiting us, or a similarly crowded event, we’ll turn away, take a detour, head back home. And the time after that....

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Thoughts on guns.

Still, still processing my thoughts on the shooting but there are a few important observations I’m ready to weigh in on. Back when this was Jared Loughner, the immediate reaction is that this is what...

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Heumerous thoughts on guns.

Philosopher Michael Heumer published an essay in 2003 arguing that humans have a prima facie right to own guns. Please note that this is different from a constitutional right which I still find...

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Takes two to entangle

Nate Silver has an interesting post about how the space for compromise in the House is dwindling along with the number of swing seats, as more districts than ever are hyper partisan. It’s an interest...

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Dropouts.

Two disturbing pieces coming nearly back to back recently outline the clusterfuck that is higher education in America today. This, from the New York Times Young adults have long faced a rough job...

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Universal armament is a stable equilibrium.

I’ve been hearing a lot of my friends on the left dismissing the argument that guns make us safer. This disturbs me because I’m with the left on this issue: I don’t want more guns and it bothers me...

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So it goes.

The reality of the changing geopolitics was not lost on the Japanese officers who watched their soldiers scrambling up San Clemente’s grassy hills. They acknowledged they were learning tactics from the...

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IMHO.

I caught a fair bit of hell for being upfront about my sentiment that locking down Boston and essentially carrying out a military invasion of the metro area was overwrought, obnoxious and unnecessary –...

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Causation Both Ways

It is commonly asserted these days that extremely accommodative monetary policy is driving down yields on junk bonds to historical lows. The situation has gotten so drastic that people have even...

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Contra the Peninsula Panglossians

It’s easy, and somewhat unfair, to dismiss social networks and people who work for them as time wasters. Because since the rise of the middle class we have known that people are willing to pay...

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