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• By: Ryan Young
• 12/01/2011

The Roman historian Tacitus wrote that "Laws were most numerous when the state was most corrupt." Matt Patterson, CEI's 2011-12 Warren Brookes Fellow, applies Tacitus'…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/29/2011

An (inentionally?) humorous lede in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The Internal Revenue Service office in Seattle is investigating an infestation of possible blood-sucking parasites -- bedbugs…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/29/2011

Editor, Politico: Jonathan Allen’s November 28 article, “Mandatory budget cuts after supercommittee failure will trigger pain for some,” is misleading. A cut is when spending…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/28/2011

Isaac Newton's life was a landmark event in the history of science. His funeral was, unknowingly, a landmark event in the history of human freedom.