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A. Chambers

Prohibition Déjà vu

On August 19 The Wall Street Journal reported that serious organized crime had spread to one of the most affluent,…

Agenda of Truth

The national community-based group, ACORN, recently underwent some investigative journalism Sacha Baron Cohen-style. What the amateur journalist/actors/videographers found were several…

What Free Market?

From the beginning, most commentators agreed that this recession was caused by a failure of the free market. But an…

The Caretaker State?

"It will be hard," President Barack Obama acknowledged in a speech earlier this year to Congress.  But he added, "Let…

Condemned By Democracy

Recently in Afghanistan a young man–Parwez Kambakhsh–was arrested, imprisoned, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death. After the death penalty…

Could I Get a Hand?

I looked up at the bicycle box, a little perturbed. It sat high above my head on a shelf that…