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DENNIS MYERS
Against the Grain
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Direct democracy empowers the rich
Last week there was an election in California and no one seemed to find it strange.
Welcome to the People's Republic of Nevada
Threats, intimidation, secrecy, dead-of-night legislating and changing the rules in the middle of the game. These are the lengths Nevada Democrats have sunk to in their effort to pass a billion tax hike this legislatve session. It's not that our government is broke, it's that our government is broken.
Stop the (Trouser) Presses!
I come to London for the signage ("Danger: Men working overhead"), and to pick up a tube of Euthymol toothpaste and devour a cup of Mr. Whippy lemon ice and a package of chocolate HobNobs, and to enjoy the roomy taxicabs and the cabbies' no-hesitation style of driving, their bold U-turns, and to observe the gilded gates and the Mounted Guards and all the storybook tinges of aristocracy so dear to us Americans.
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