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By Petrarch  |  Sep 10, 2007  |   
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                    Is American citizenship of such little concern that we don't mind it being awarded as the result of a crime?
                 
            
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By Pukka Sahib  |  Aug 31, 2007  |   
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                    Bureaucracies never die, and India's still uses genuine red tape.
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Aug 28, 2007  |   
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                    The Romans understood nation building, an art we and the British have forgotten.
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Aug 24, 2007  |   
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                    "It is the duty of every officer of His Majesty's Navy, to discharge powder and shot in the general direction of the enemy."
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Aug 24, 2007  |   
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                    If Mr. Bush really wants a new immigration law, there's a simple way for him to get one.
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  Jul 23, 2007  |   
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                    Brazil serves as an object lesson in how government incompetence - not greed, not really bribery even, certainly not totalitarianism, just simple incompetence - can make life difficult on an otherwise free and vibrant economy.