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  • City Fines Elderly Man $30,000 Over Uncut Grass, Tries to Steal His Home

    City Fines Elderly Man $30,000 Over Uncut Grass, Tries to Steal His Home0

    A Florida town attracted national attention last week for its efforts to fine a 69-year-old retiree nearly $30,000 and then foreclose on his home because he was unable to pay — all because he failed to cut his grass. The Tampa Bay Times reports that the city of Dunedin claims its Code Enforcement Board, which

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  • City Councils Cave When Faced With the Marketplace of Ideas

    City Councils Cave When Faced With the Marketplace of Ideas1

    City councils across America almost seem intent on proving that the best cure for a bad idea is a good idea, though, they are going about it in a rather interesting new way. The Washington Post reports that a Black Lives Matter street mural – which stood for a month and a half and greeted President Trump

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  • Citizenship No Longer Required to Vote in School Board Elections in San Francisco

    Citizenship No Longer Required to Vote in School Board Elections in San Francisco0

    Noncitizens can vote in San Francisco’s Board of Education elections after the city’s Department of Elections ruled Monday to do away with citizenship requirements. Noncitizens seeking to vote in San Francisco’s Board of Education elections must be at least 18 years old and residents of the city, CBS SF Bay Area reported Monday. They must also

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  • Cicero and Democracy: What an Ancient Thinker Can Teach Us About Government

    Cicero and Democracy: What an Ancient Thinker Can Teach Us About Government2

    Ancient philosophers didn’t like democracy. Cicero, the great Roman defender of natural rights, is a case-in-point. So as Americans gear up for another presidential election, it’s worth taking a look at his reasons for rejecting popular government. Politics played an outsized role in Cicero’s life, so it’s not surprising that he wrote and spoke a

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  • CIA Claims Russia Has Pervy Dirt on Trump. But Did They Get Trolled?

    CIA Claims Russia Has Pervy Dirt on Trump. But Did They Get Trolled?0

    We’ve officially entered the Twilight Zone. Tuesday night, several media outlets opted to run with the details surrounding unsubstantiated claims that Russia has (gross) dirt on president-elect Donald Trump. The claims, which come from an addendum to a CIA report compiled by a former British intelligence officer, assert that Moscow has been supporting Trump for

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  • CIA Analysts Love to Read French Philosophy

    CIA Analysts Love to Read French Philosophy0

    CIA analysts have been reading Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and Jean-Paul Sartre for years. The reasons might astound you.  In a recent article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Gabriel Rockhill, a Philosophy professor at Villanova University, explains why the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a longstanding interest in post-World War

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