After reading Will’s post yesterday about baby names, I started poking around in the Social Security baby name database (which is an incredibly fun resource and might be all we get, since Republicans think we shouldn’t let Census do fun things any more).
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Okay, whatever partisan disagreements I have with the House Republicans, their decision to eliminate the American Community Survey is a bridge too damn far. This means war.
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Setting aside some of the obnoxious partisan rhetoric (seriously, how is it the left’s fault that Michele Bachmann has dual citizenship?), this post by Mark Krikorian at NRO has some interesting nuggets buried within.
First, and maybe less interesting, this is what happens when our news cycle becomes politics 24/7. We become incapable of seeing the world as anything other than a game of tribes and loyalty. Everything you do becomes about which team you’re on, who you’re pledging allegiance to, and so on. It creates this Manichean drive where everything is either right or wrong, and if you disagree with me it’s because you’re some kind of heathen.
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I was getting ready to write something about the new Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA for short – couldn’t get another O in there, guys?), and its intersection with the free market, libertarianism more generally, and the liberal idea of how freedom really works.
Instead, I got totally sidetracked. I headed over to THOMAS (one of my favorite resources) to look up the actual text of the bill so I might have something interesting to say, looked up the bill (H.R. 5050, if you’re curious), and I noticed the link to the “constitutional authority statement”. I had forgotten these things even happened any more, so I clicked on it to see what came up, and I found:
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