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Clearly, the role of Governor of California is a no-win situation. Anyone who understands how California is impacted by the referendum process, a super majority requirement for passing the budget, term limits and our current legislative districts would know that being Governor is a sure way to add a major public failure to your resume. [...]

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Here’s a really interesting article by Stanley Fish in NYT.com. The malleable line between speech and action seems to be at the crux of the consternation regarding this latest decision concerning the First Amendment and free speech. It seems like the author is suggesting that the justices had it well within reason to have found [...]

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A little clarity in the Keynes vs Hayek debate

by Dave Gehring on February 9, 2010

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American exceptionalism, Reinhold Niebuhr and Barack Obama

by Dave Gehring on December 17, 2009

President Obama’s recent speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize seems to have been viewed by the Right as a surprising reaffirmation of american exceptionalism.  The speech also seems to be viewed by the Left as a surprising contradiction to the idealism that supports a rigorously (and some might consider utopian) pacifist social ethic. I can [...]

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My favorite season of the year

by Dave Gehring on December 4, 2009

I absolutely love this time of year.  Football, Thanksgiving, Fall weather, then first snows, Christmas, lots of opportunity to assess the year; count my blessings and focus on the most important things.  To welcome it in, here’s a video that cracks me up!

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Of course a little football on Thanksgiving!

by Dave Gehring on November 26, 2009

I love this zigzag punt return!  My favorite parts of the video: first the pose a blocker strikes after making a hit on the second zag; second, the way the player stands in the end zone looking pretty baffled by it all while he just drops the ball…hilarious! Play of the day: Grant's Kenneth Acker's [...]

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A nation descending into an unemployment abyss

by Dave Gehring on November 22, 2009

Latoya Egwuekwe put this graphic together displaying the progression in rising unemployment rates by County across the country.  Nebraska never looked so good!  Click on the image and press play to see the graphic in action.

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Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

by Dave Gehring on November 20, 2009

This has to be one of the coolest music videos I’ve seen. Totally compelling.

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Where do you fit on this card?

by Dave Gehring on November 17, 2009

From Jessica Hagy

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What the physicists call a TOE

by Dave Gehring on November 14, 2009

By Jessica Hagy

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