Between the Lines: Of Checks and Balances
The first government shutdown in 15 years made news a few days ago by not happening. Still, it’s worth reviewing what it would have been like if up to 800,000 government workers had had to leave their desks until further notice. And it’s worth noting that...
Work at Your Own Risk
Twelve years ago this spring, Patrice Woeppel was heading to her office in the Florida hospital where she worked as clinical director when she slipped on a dirty floor and fell to the ground. “I landed on my hands, then onto my left hip,” Woeppel writes in...Imperium Watch: 1040 Talk
April 15, the perennial income tax filing day, is not tax day this year. Thanks to a holiday many of us never heard of—Emancipation Day, the day slaves were freed in the District of Columbia by edict of Abraham Lincoln in 1862—this year we don’t have...Letters: What Do You Think?
Riffers Live, Puppets Died James Heflin’s article “The Wisecracking Puppets Who Wouldn’t Die” [April 8, 2010] was a frustrating piece to read for a longtime MST3K fan. Heflin cites several episodes from the series and states: “All that...E-Edition
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