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Prof Hasnas nails on the head with "What It Feels Like To Be A Libertarian" http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/FeelsLike.htm

It's so true and well worth the read. He's right: everyone thinks "if only we had more regulation to fix this" only not to realize that regulations got us here in the first place. If only Georgetown had more faculty like him.

I remember the Georgetown Federalist interviewing Professor Patrick Deneen in the past before Utraque Unum was founded. Maybe another faculty interview is in order...?

I thought it would be witty to riff off the title of one of John Hughes's many famous movies after his passing a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, real life got in the way of my well-laid plans, which makes this post now either completely tasteless or completely untimely. I hope for the latter.

But the title hints at something that has always nagged at me, and now nags at me more as I read Atlas Shrugged (don't give anything away: taking New Jersey back from statists is taking up my free time right now!) and Taggart Transcontinental.

We've already tackled absentee ballots and how wider availability of them has allowed Democrats to go borough storming and committing election fraud. I heard an interesting conspiracy theory over the phone from someone calling the office here at the Christie HQ.

All the media today seem to be filled with coverage of Obama's "Waterloo": that is, his botched launch and execution of his health-care reform initiative. But what I find most interesting is how vehement the Administration and the Democratic establishment have been in attempting to silence vociferous critics of their plan.

In case you hadn't heard about the recent indictment of 44 politicians and rabbis in connection with an international money laundering scheme, New Jersey is pretty corrupt. And has become yet again the butt of many jokes. Oh and I did I mention between all the state regulations, laws, and leftist ideology, it's practically a quasi-police state?
 

I was driving around today, listening to Bloomberg on the car radio. I heard President Obama give his speech to the Business Roundtable. Unfortunately, none of the transcripts seem to capture two interesting things I heard.

An interesting email from the Georgetown College Republicans went out on the listserv yesterday:

Just uploaded the latest issue of The Georgetown Federalist. Some highlights include Valentine's in DC for a conservative, point/counter-point on the closing of Guantamo Bay, Michael Phelps, and the Stimulus package.
Enjoy!
-Jared

Inauguration Day issue is up (though the print issue was out there before inauguration day!). Plenty of articles to ring in the new administration: a Bush retrospective, reviews of Frost/Nixon and Vakyrie, a stirring defense of hunting, and the Roland Burris debacle just to name a few. Hopefully you're enjoying our new blogging features. Hopefully that will hold you over between issues. Until next time!
 
-Jared Pilosio '09
Web Editor

In case anyone missed the news, Hillary Clinton looks like our next Secretary of State...which means that it falls upon Governor Paterson of New York to fill that US Senate seat vacancy. Now there seems to be a true battle royale between the Kennedy and the Cuomo camps for that seat. I decided that I did not want Caroline Kennedy, you know, to go onto receive that open seat, you know, without a fight.