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Quashing speech

The inherent conflict between the First Amendment and “campaign finance reform” will again be on full display Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a case involving a film that is highly critical of Hillary Clinton.

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‘Las Vegas: where you can’t afford a drink’

Spending on travel and tourism declined last year for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Commerce Department reports. “As Americans canceled vacations, a strong dollar kept foreigners away and businesses slashed travel budgets,” The Wall Street Journal reported last week.

Does anybody know plain English?

It’s pointless to isolate one’s rage on these bonuses paid by AIG, the international insurance giant that went broke by doing exotic financial transactions instead of actuarially unassailable insurance business.

Lessons from bailout, stimulus boondoggles

I heard it said once that “there’s so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it’s sometimes hard to tell the good from bad.”

Invoke the nine-knockdown rule

Two local announcements capped off Sunshine Week (dedicated to openness in government) in appropriate fashion.

‘Just submit … you can protest later’

I “just finished reading the article on Excessive Force on page 2B,” wrote in Ron the Former Police Officer, earlier this month. “Another person was apparently injured in a police confrontation, followed by the usual lawsuit. As a former police detective, I have a solution on how to avoid 99 percent of all injuries, lawsuits, and deaths sustained as a result of a police confrontation,” offers Officer Ron:

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