I turned 40 yesterday. A quick look around the dinner table – my parents, my wife and kids, my sister and her family – I reflected on what accomplishments are truly important.
These are mine.
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Perpetual Beta : Release
The First Amendment does not permit laws that force speakers to retain a campaign finance attorney, conduct demographic marketing research, or seek declaratory rulings before discussing the most salient political issues of our day.
Citizens United v. FEC 558 U. S. — (2010) [PDF]
The Supreme Court’s decision striking many of the regulations of McCain-Feingold has been [...]
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I did it.
Sometime after I started seriously running just under two years ago, part of me decided that it wasn’t enough to run a 5K, or a 10K – I would someday run a marathon. Nevermind that the longest I’d ever run before was 6 miles, back when I was 18 and invincible. [...]
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Bradford L. Graham, 1968-2010
Brad Graham has suddenly left us. If you can measure a man by the size of the hole in the hearts he left behind, Brad is a giant.
We’ll miss you, friend.
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Training log – final long run
Originally uploaded by MikeWas
I’ve now completed my last long run before tapering for the Disney Marathon on Jan. 10. Today was a 20-miler in 3:57.
For the first time, I think I’m ready.
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Eighteen miles, in a car, is not far at all. It’s a brief excursion; a side trip; a short jaunt.
On two feet, eighteen miles is brutal.
Thirteen? Doable. Fifteen? Challenging, but still enjoyable. Eighteen miles is pain – a totally different beast from the slightly shorter distances.
I’ve tried it twice now, once [...]
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Back in the closing days of the last century, roughly a Spartan military unit of us tried our hand at this little thing called “blogging.”
One of those brave souls, who persists to this day, is Sean Hackbarth, the author of “The American Mind.” Now, Sean is clearly a bullshit artist and a suck-up [...]
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A jury of your peers
The right to trial by jury is so precious in our legal system that there are not one, but two amendments in the Bill of Rights that protect it: The Sixth Amendment for criminal matters, and the Seventh Amendment for civil trials. The flip side of that jury [...]
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