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Is Hillary's Nomination Unconstitutional? [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]An obscure clause in the Constitution has some saying that it may be unconstitutional for Hillary Clinton to be appointed Secretary of State. Article One, Section Six of the U.S. Constitution says: No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to an... |
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Rutherford and America's Founding Principles [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]Jon Rowe has an excellent post at Positive Liberty about Samuel Rutherford and the concept of unalienable rights. Rutherford was a Calvinist theologian in Scotland in the early 1600s and the author of Lex, Rex, which translates as "the law is king." Many religious right types attempt to... |
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Giant furry pets of the Incas [Tetrapod Zoology]Another one from the archives. It's one of several articles I wrote in 2006 on obscure tropical rodents, was originally published here, and appears here with new pics and a few new details... If you've read Scott Weidensaul's excellent book The Ghost With Trembling Wings (2002), you'll rec... |
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Horribly Cold Lasers [Built on Facts]Well, my Thanksgiving posting break lasted longer than I thought. Real life is a more fun place than the internet though, and I hope you were having lots of fun and food and were not on the internet to notice my absence. Among the things I did this Thanksgiving was watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-A... |
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Elitist Bastardry, Mark VII [Science After Sunclipse]The November edition of the Carnival of the Elitist Bastards is ontube at Café Philos. Insert your monocle and enjoy! Read the comments on this post... ... |
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Change.gov, Boyle's Public Domain [Common Knowledge]Hope all the Americans had a good holiday, and that the rest of the world finds peace in a troubled week. To my friends in India and Pakistan, to my colleagues at the Internet Governance Forum this week in Hyderabad...my thoughts are with you all. Two quick links of much importance in my world... |

