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Beam Me Back Down

Jesse Walker | 2.24.2010 9:57 AM

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The Youngstown populist Jim Traficant, ex-congressman and ex-con, says he's going to make another run for the House, this time as an independent.

Elsewhere in Reason: A brief selection of Traficant's Star Trek references on the House floor.

[Via J.H. Huebert.]

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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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