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Read more: Was the Opt-Out Movement a Failure?
Was the Opt-Out Movement a Failure?
In his 1789 work An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Jeremy Bentham gives a definition for ethical behavior. Ethics at large may be defined as the art of directing men’s actions to the production of the greatest possible quantity of happiness for those whose interests are in view. Bentham’s thinking later became…
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Read more: Taylor Threatens MoCo’s Charter School for Black and Brown Students
Taylor Threatens MoCo’s Charter School for Black and Brown Students
In 2003, Vladimir Putin ordered the arrest of Russia’s wealthiest citizen Mikhail Khodorkovsky. During the preceding decade, the oligarch had challenged Putin’s increasingly centralized authority. Those challenges included funding opposition political parties. The charges against Khodorkovsky included fraud, tax evasion, and embezzlement. There is strong evidence that these charges were synthetic. After his conviction, Khodorkovsky’s…
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Read more: Rezoned and Still Missing the Middle—Part 2: Dismantling the Colony
Rezoned and Still Missing the Middle—Part 2: Dismantling the Colony
In 1632, King Charles I granted Lord Baltimore a charter to settle an area of new New World delineated by the Atlantic Ocean, 40th degree latitude, the Potomac River, and islands in the Chesapeake Bay. Charles named the area Maryland. Because Baltimore was chummy with Charles, he received very enticing terms of ownership. And we…
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Read more: Rezoned and Still Missing the Middle—Part 1: Cost Accounting
Rezoned and Still Missing the Middle—Part 1: Cost Accounting
Anyone who cares about affordable housing supports rezoning—including President Biden’s administration and more recently the Senate’s bi-partisan ROAD to Housing Act. For my part, I’ve written dozens of articles in favor of blanket rezoning the acres upon acres of single-family lots throughout Montgomery County to increase the supply and lower the price. Unfortunately, recent experience…
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Read more: Bringing SNAP home
Bringing SNAP home
Council Member Marilyn Balcombe stated it perfectly: she cast the county’s recent special SNAP appropriation as a “response to federal chaos.” The recent federal shutdown was due to deliberations concerning lifting the debt ceiling. Without congressional authorization to borrow even more money than it already has, the government shut down due to lack of funds.…
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Read more: No Kings. No Dictators. Just Us the Vote Diluters.
No Kings. No Dictators. Just Us the Vote Diluters.
Samantha never once committed larceny. She routinely writes Twitter posts denouncing the crime and anyone who commits it. Julie committed larceny once, was apprehended, did 60 days in jail, and is fully reformed. She openly denounces the crime and its perpetrators, but from a position of repentance. She can (and should) serve as a mentor…
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Read more: Let’s Allocate Food The Way MCPS Allocates IB Placement
Let’s Allocate Food The Way MCPS Allocates IB Placement
Amy Ming walks into my vegetable store and wants to buy a few tomatoes. I ask her a few harmless demographic questions such as address, race, income, net worth, marital status, pronouns, gender identification, party registration, and positions on LGBT/Trump/DEI. (You know, the standard stuff we all have to disclose.) She provides all the answers…
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Read more: Taylor Offers Reparations for Failed MCPS Graduates
Taylor Offers Reparations for Failed MCPS Graduates
There’s a knock at your door. You open the door. A former bouncer at the 9:30 Club announces, “Mr. Gonzales of Aspen Hill never received his delivery of an Omega Speedmaster co-axial automatic men’s chronograph watch, so you are paying for the replacement.” The man then enters your premises and confiscates your Tesla charging station,…
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Read more: Feds, the progressives are your friends no longer
Feds, the progressives are your friends no longer
In Los Angeles there is an area between Westwood and Santa Monica that is home to several large federal installations (FBI, VA, various agency extension offices). If a fed gets laid off from one of those agencies, there is plenty of work available in LA’s entertainment, hospitality, manufacturing, and other industries. In New York there…
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Read more: Karla Silvestre?? For County Council??
Karla Silvestre?? For County Council??
Board of Education member Karla Silvestre has announced her candidacy for an at-large seat on the County Council. What is her motivation? I know how to work with others to get things done, build bridges, and at this critical time in our county we need serious leaders who will work everyday to put the needs…