Long live Federalism. It’s not that hard to imagine, actually. Whoever owns the federal government will eventually warm to the idea of using it.
Archives for March 2006
Friday Beer Blogging – The Long Shadow Of A Small Country
On a tour of Europe you can pass through Belgium without necessarily knowing that you were there. Pretty in its own slightly-unique way, smallish and largely a non-player in the scheme of international intrigue, Belgium has become a geographic center of the brewing universe. Like the French monks who cultivated the science of winemaking, monks …
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The Idiotarian Prophet
Via a reader, the National Review has started running retrospective articles from their 50-year run (I’m looking forward to their contemporary articles on Martin Luther King and the SCLC). Wading through their archives, a reviewer named Whittaker Chambers took a surprisingly dim view of Ayn Rand: The news about this book seems to me to …
Enzo Follow-Up
A few days back an internet millionaire decided to run his Ferrari Enzo into a telephone pole at more than 160 mph. It seemed like a sad fate for a rare car, like inadvertently running over a Black Rhinoceros or something similar. Via Kevin Drum, the story gets wierder: A few minutes later, two unidentified …
NASA Strikes Back
Imagine that your’e the head of a biggish governmental agency in the middle of a budget crunch. You need a bit more cash to finish the year under budget, but you know that the government’s got its own fiscal problems to deal with. What do you do? If your first reaction was ‘make do with …
Open Thread
Unleash your barbarian yawp. Until we resolve the issue with our server quota you’ll have to go here for kitten pictures.
NY’s Elections
It looks like partisan bickering and in-fighting in NY has led to their being sued by the Feds: The Justice Department sued New York State on Wednesday for failing to overhaul its election system and replace its aging voting machines. It is the first lawsuit the federal government has filed to force a state to …