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Keeping the Paradise City a paradise must be tough work. I mean, paradise is supposed to be perfect, right? Completely comfortable, without any cause for concern. But even in a city like Northampton, set snugly in the Pioneer Valley, undesirable people still slip...Imperium Watch: The Tax Haven at Home
The mill of the gods grinds slowly, they say, but it grinds exceeding small. In Washington, something very like the mill of the gods is the GAO (Government Accountability Office), whose anonymous researchers crank out facts about nearly everything the government does....Level With Us
You don't get elected president, or dogcatcher, in America by suggesting that citizens change their profligate lifestyles. America is all about excess and consumption, forever and ever. The pleasant fantasy that keeps us going is that by the time the oil runs out...E-Edition
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