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Posts on ‘February 2nd, 2013’

The day parliament jumped the shark

Feb 2nd, 2013
by Single Acts of Tyranny.
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Fans of ‘Blackadder the Third’ will remember Baldrick’s election to the rotten Borough of Dunny-on-the-wold, the only voter being Blackadder himself.  This was first aired in 1987 and was my first introduction to the concept of the rotten borough.  It was a pretty amusing episode lampooning the archaic nonsense of the past which claimed the [...]

Richard A. Epstein, interviewed for Reason TV

Feb 2nd, 2013
by Julie near Chicago.
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Richard A. Epstein, interviewed by Nick Gillespie of Reason TV on Obama Itself, a practical flaw at the heart of the regulatory regime, and ObamaCare in particular. ~12 1/2 min.
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