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Washingtonians, you can’t be thanked enough for knocking down I-933 at the polls this year. Via Sightline, take a look at what’s happening in Oregon because of Measure 37, the Beaver State’s answer to 933. It’s nothing less than legalized extortion.
What a mess.

It’s not just the whiny underemployed — the high cost of health care may be stifling America’s entrepreneurial spirit:
Entrepreneurs have plenty of things to keep them awake at night worrying: payroll, inventory, pricing, competition. For Jere Smith and her husband, Don Lueders, the main thing is health insurance.
Many small-business owners struggle with the high cost [...]

It’s true. Insert “invisible hand” joke here.
Anyway, I believe that’s the first half-assed pun we’ve made on the name of the representative from Washington’s 9th District. It probably won’t be the last. In all seriousness though, the Postman post linked above links to an article about a private mano-a-mano between former Clinton [...]

I really thought that some crazy-ass multi-nation diplomatic grand bargain was underway this week. Newsweek says, not so much.
Who knows… these things are all done sub rosa, and we the public aren’t usually privy to the subtle machinations of international diplomacy (or otherwise unable to separate causes and effects of various geopolitical maneuvers). [...]

Offer it, and they will accept it:
Thirty thousand Ford Motor Company workers — nearly half of the automaker’s unionized work force — have agreed to leave their jobs in exchange for a buyout or a package of early retirement benefits, the company said this morning.
All of the 75,000 Ford employees represented by the United Automobile [...]

The cheese eating surrender monkeys are at it again, this time after a police officer of African descent killed a member of a mob while defending a Jewish fan the mob had chased into an alley and was threatening to kill.
The trouble began outside the stadium, as is often the case, after the Paris team [...]

Can a judge force the US Treasury to redesign its currency? Maybe so.
The government discriminates against by printing money that all looks and feels the same, a federal judge said Tuesday in a ruling that could change the face of American currency.
U.S. District Judge James Robertson ordered the Treasury Department to come up with [...]

As Bruno noted, my own pet theory on the Litvinenko killling is that whoever did it wanted to be discovered, in order to send a message to some other rival.
Looks like that may actually be the case:
Boris Berezovsky, an exiled Russian billionaire and fierce opponent of the Kremlin, confirmed today that police found radioactive traces [...]

I really, really wanted to give Bush a chance to be a moderate, and help the Dems pass minimum wage hikes and amnesty for unauthorized US residents.
But looks like he’s still campaigning:
“When you see a young democracy beginning to emerge in the Middle East, the extremists try to defeat its emergence,” Bush said. “Extremists attack [...]

If it’s true that Vladimir Putin ordered the hit on Alexander Litvinenko, the ex-Russian spy, that’s some seriously messed up shit!
Also, I heard on NPR today that Litvinenko had just become a British citizen. Meaning that if the Russian government successfully assassinated a British citizen, well… that’s some seriously messed up shit! There [...]