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Politics

The Federal Taint

Jesse Walker | 1.3.2007 12:34 PM

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One silver lining to last week's Althouse affair: It prompted Ilya Somin to write a sensible assessment of the relationship between racism and federalism.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Sam Franklin   20 years ago

    If the North had just let the South secede, then we would all, black and white, be better off today in myriad ways today. There is your states rights. Right there.

    I believe that about as strongly as one can believe such a counter-historical counterfactual.

  2. V (hound) M   20 years ago

    Korn syrup on the taint causes taint cancer.

  3. thoreau   20 years ago

    You know, there's more than one interpretation for the title of this post.

  4. Guy Montag   20 years ago

    thoreau,

    Taint nuttin new.

  5. :-   20 years ago

    Taint Misbehavin'.

    Sorry.

  6. NoStar   20 years ago

    Jesse, Jesse, Jesse,
    The proper anatomical appellation is chinrest.

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