I spent a couple of weeks slacking off on my news reading, so the airstriking of an Iranian general took […]
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On marking bills
Speaking of using cash as an advertisement, I took in a $20 bill the other day that had Harriet Tubman’s […]
Bangor City Hall’s proposed renovation boondoggle
Last week in my local paper: The first floor of Bangor City Hall could look pretty different in the coming […]
Twitter hated Paul Manafort’s sentence
So Paul Manafort was convicted of assorted fraud and sentenced to 47 months in prison the other day, and my […]
One of the many good things about paying attention to foreign news is that American political conspiracy theories are mostly […]
Meet the new rep, same as the old rep
Unless Bruce Poliquin somehow manages to retroactively rewrite election law (which he’s trying, the whiny little miscreant), he’s about to […]
And a happy Vote Week to you, too!
Election Day is the high holy day of the statist faith, and the week before it (at least on even-numbered […]
This is what a reform politician looks like
Last week, Armenia’s prime minister resigned last week to try to force his enemies out of parliament. Armenia’s system is […]
Phrases I didn’t expect to read today: “deliberate attempt to impersonate Transparency International.” (This is related to Cameroon’s contentious presidential […]
I didn’t pay much attention to the Kavanaugh nomination argument; I saw the highlights on social media but didn’t prusue […]
Ray of Infamy 