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    Why is hosting an art exhibition? Because art is a powerful messenger. Submit your art by Friday, January 11, 2019...

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  2. Is there one best way to educate kids?

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    27 Dec 2018

    And finally, this year's #1 most popular post of 2018 at Overlawyered: "18,000 Facebook shares later: a tale of legal misinformation"

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    30 Dec 2018
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  5. To some of its advocates, gun control is worth abandoning not just the Second Amendment but many other individual liberties, including First Amendment rights of speech and association, Fourth Amendment rights against search & seizure, & financial privacy.

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    18 Dec 2018

    This paper addresses reducing the harms that result from drug prohibition. I have written often on how present misguided opioid policy is harming pain patients while increasing overdoses among nonmusical users, most recently here:

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  7. Forty Ways the World Is Getting Better

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    27 Dec 2018

    This year's 6th most popular post at Overlawyered: "'More Comic Conventions Change Their Names After Crazy SDCC Attorney’s Fees And Injunction Ruling'"

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    30 Dec 2018

    We are the luckiest generation that has ever lived. On average, we are longer living, richer, healthier, more educated, safer and, even, happier, than any other people who have ever lived.

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  10. Wealth is increasing significantly faster than the human population is. Can we keep this trend going?

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    27 Dec 2018

    Alex found that even states that mandate E-Verify cannot enforce E-Verify, and that nearly half of employers there don’t use the program despite a legal requirement to do so. So much for that magic bullet solution

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    Jan 3

    Tariffs are taxes on Americans. Money the treasury takes in from tariffs is money taken out of the pockets of Americans.

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    Jan 3

    School policy forces kids with bad grades to wear special IDs: 'Public ridicule,' says ACLU

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  14. It is easy to say that public schools are essential unifiers, and that choice threatens cohesion. But reality doesn't quite match up...

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  15. Fear of opioids propels drug prohibition, the black market, and rising overdoses from heroin and fentanyl. It also drives the misguided prohibition on prescribing pain medication, causing patients to suffer and destroying lives. ...

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    14 Dec 2018

    Ross received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902, for discovering how malaria is transmitted. Once scientists understood the role of mosquitoes, they were able to develop programs aimed at halting the spread of the disease.

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    29 Nov 2018

    The total number of absolute poor decrease by more than 700 million between 1981 and 2008, even as the world population rose by 48 percent.

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  18. Jan 4

    And people wonder why we have an opioid epidemic....

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    Jan 1

    Not Feeling Much Bern: my review of 's "The End of Socialism" for , Spring 2016

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    It’s not Fentanyl that’s at the root of our nation’s overdose problems. The real source of our woes is drug prohibition.

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    7 Dec 2018

    Penicillin revolutionized the medical field and it is likely that most people reading this today have benefited from Fleming’s discovery at some point in their lives.

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