Imperial Presidency

Heh

January 26, 2013

More from The Looking Spoon

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“The ordinary people were not happy. They loathed the Emperor’s interference in every detail of their daily lives.”

January 15, 2013

“Why should they be forbidden to bake ginger-bread just because Joseph thought it bad for the stomach? Why the Imperial edict demanding the breast-feeding of infants? Why the banning of corsets? From these and a thousand other petty regulations, enforced by a secret police, it looked to the Austrians as though Joseph were trying to [ Read more ]

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Email Doodlings – Libertarians HAVE finally made a political impact – are they about to throw it away?

March 11, 2012

I’ve been in a writing funk for a while now – too many targets, no focus, trying to run for re-election in my town, a couple of other projects, and I find myself stretched too thin (yeah, self-induced again).  However, the following came over the gunwales a few minutes ago, and the fog (smog?) that [ Read more ]

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