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› Civil War › Preview

I’ll be at the Wolftrap in Vienna, Virginia tonight to see Joe Henry. So here’s a little bonus music blogging:

› Judge Jim Gray on the Drug War › Preview

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› NYPD and Broken Windows › Preview

My crime column this week looks at a couple of scandals to hit NYPD in recent weeks—one alleging that police commanders were pressured to downgrade or bury actual crimes, and another that rank-and-file cops are given arrest and citation quotas.

› Morning LInks › Preview

My favorite line graph. The myth of the sacrifice of public service. The benefits disparity is incredible. Arizona Supreme Court appoints special prosecutor to investigate complaints against Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas. “Reason Saves Cleveland” makes front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Story here. L.A. murder rate drops to ...

› Sleep Safe, Greensburg. You Won’t Have To Worry About These Monsters Anymore › Preview

There are no dead dogs, lying informants, or flash grenades, but this story from Greensburg, Indiana, really captures the mundane stupidity, utter dissonance, and day-to-day waste of resources that is America’s drug war. Seems that last week a concerned citizen called a tip line to report some young people smoking ...

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› O’Reilly: No Freedom, No How › Preview

By David BoazBill O’Reilly teases an interview with John Stossel this way: Should Americans be able to use their body for any purpose? John Stossel says yes and joins us to explain! And Bill O’Reilly says no! No to legal prostitution, no to polygamy, no even to legal markets for ...

› Diane Ravitch: Expert Historian, Policy Tyro › Preview

By Andrew J. CoulsonDiane Ravitch is a leading education historian. Her work in that field is characteristically thorough and well-researched, and her books The Troubled Crusade and The Great School Wars, in particular, made significant contributions to our understanding of U.S. education history. On the presumption that Ravitch is as ...

› The National Broadband Plan Is Bad. Period. › Preview

By Jim HarperI’ve seen plenty of stories and gotten a fair number of calls from reporters about the national broadband plan. They generally want to get some insight from down in the weeds of the communications world. What do you think of this part? What do you think of that? ...

› The Case against Domestic Military Detention › Preview

By David RittgersWashington is consumed once more with the problem of terrorism, driven by the dual pressures of an unsuccessful terrorist attack on commercial aviation and upcoming elections that give politicians an incentive to speak in terms of war. We are again treated to the ridiculous argument that a terrorist ...

› Scalia Can No Longer Call Himself an Originalist › Preview

By Ilya ShapiroAs I blogged last week, the Supreme Court didn’t seem amenable to Privileges or Immunities Clause arguments in last week’s gun rights case, McDonald v. Chicago. This is unfortunate because the alternative, extending the right to keep and bear arms via the Due Process Clause, continues a long-time ...

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› Overwhelming Majority Of EU Parliament Votes Against ACTA › Preview

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› Sorry, There's No Silver Bullet Business Model For The Music Industry › Preview

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› Twitter Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed, As Tweets Were Considered Too Vague › Preview

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› Did Ok Go Free Itself From EMI? › Preview

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› Transmedia Storytelling... With A CwF+RtB Twist › Preview

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› Adventures in 5D › Preview

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› Journey to Kompong Phhluk › Preview

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› Juxtaposition › Preview

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› Drenched in Doubtful Sound › Preview

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› Sleeping around the world › Preview

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