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		<title>Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker, Suite 3 (&#8220;Sugar Plum Fairy&#8221;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>An alternate defense of the Citizens United decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assume, for the purposes of the argument, that corporations aren&#8217;t people. I don&#8217;t think this implies that the Citizens United decision is necessarily wrong. I think it is obvious that even if you accept fully that corporations aren&#8217;t people, people &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/an-alternate-defense-of-the-citizens-united-decision/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=2053&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What arbitrary indefinite detentions for national security looks like, Sri Lanka edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eapen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yup, it appears that the Sri Lankan government is using its virtually unconstrained powers to kill political dissidents: THE 2009 victory of the Sri Lankan government over the Tamil Tigers in the country’s long-running civil war may have brought peace, &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/what-arbitrary-indefinite-detentions-for-national-security-looks-like-sri-lanka-edition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=2047&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;thymotic&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eapen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned a new word today, &#8220;thymotic&#8221;. The free Merriam-Webster dictionary at www.M-W.com did not list the word, but Wikipedia says: Thumos (also commonly spelled &#8220;thymos&#8221;) (Greek: θυμός) is an Ancient Greek word expressing the concept of &#8220;spiritedness&#8221; (as in &#8220;spirited stallion&#8221; or &#8220;spirited &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/thymotic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=2044&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone needs to hear what Neill Franklin is saying to honor Martin Luther King today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eapen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This email from the executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition showed up in my inbox today: Dear Eapen, On a day when we honor a man whom historians may well come to describe as one of America’s Founding Fathers, &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/everyone-needs-to-hear-what-neill-franklin-is-saying-to-honor-martin-luther-king-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=2039&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assorted links</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have well over 100 tabs open, partly because I find so many blog-worthy things to read, but end up not having time to blog many of them. So I&#8217;m clearing my tabs today, and posting all the worthwhile links &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/assorted-links-10/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=2035&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is great</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jack picked this article as the best New York Times article of 2011. It&#8217;s on the last decade of student testing in New York City, and here&#8217;s the last paragraph: &#8220;Nearly a quarter of the state’s principals — &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/this-is-great/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=2023&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eliot on Doyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Bookslut, Greer Mansfield has an excellent review of Michael Dirda’s On Conan Doyle: or, the Whole Art of Storytelling. Here&#8217;s the quote: On Conan Doyle also delves into the strange world of Sherlock Holmes “scholarship.” Dirda spends a generous amount of &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/eliot-on-doyle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=2020&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Siobhan Reynolds, Lioness Rampant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Siobhan Reynolds died this weekend in an Ohio plane crash, and I wanted to write about her life and her work. Siobhan needs some introduction, and you will get some from this post. But you should also first &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/siobhan-reynolds-lioness-rampant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=2012&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Police state newspeak</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ordinary citizens commit &#8220;crimes&#8221;. In Florida, cops don&#8217;t commit crimes; rather, they commit &#8220;moral character violations&#8221;. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Florida, Newspeak, Orwell, police, police unions<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=2001&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;America is now blood and tears instead of milk and honey&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still relevant&#8230; Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Gil-Scott Heron<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=1993&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In defense of Chief Burton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The effort led by Doug Lane of the group “Chief Burton needs to resign” seeks the ouster of Columbia police chief Ken Burton in retaliation for the firing of office Rob Sanders. In this pursuit, Burton’s opponents have made allegations &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/1988/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=1988&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zeitgeist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, November 07, 2011 Contact: Laura Egerdal, (573) 526-0949 Two Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation for 2012 Ballot Jefferson City, MO – Secretary of State Robin Carnahan today announced that two initiative &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/zeitgeist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=1981&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In which I disagree with Hank Waters on policing</title>
		<link>http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/in-which-i-disagree-with-hank-waters-on-policing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today in an editorial in the Columbia Tribune, Hank Waters writes: For understandable reasons, police have a military mentality. Often they are confronted with maddening subjects who might be dangerous or life-threatening. Officers have a duty and a right to &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/in-which-i-disagree-with-hank-waters-on-policing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=1975&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the proposed downtown Columbia CID tax &#8220;taxation without representation&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/is-the-proposed-downtown-columbia-cid-tax-taxation-without-representation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a email to me about the proposed new 1/2 cent sales tax increase in downtown Columbia, attorney Skip Walther noted: The sales tax would be an increase, but it would be paid by residents and by visitors who do &#8230; <a href="http://ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/is-the-proposed-downtown-columbia-cid-tax-taxation-without-representation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksandeconomics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7070843&amp;post=1970&amp;subd=ducksandeconomics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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