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By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A. (With Apologies to Dr. Seuss)December 2008
Every Who Down in Who-ville Liked Christmas a lotBut Bernanke, who lived just north of Who-ville, thought it might be for naught.
Bernanke feared for Christmas, and the whole shopping season.Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.It could be that interest rates [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable Friends:
Heeding the overwhelming will of the people– and perhaps at last developing a bit of good sense– the U.S. Senate has rejected the idea of a bailout for the Detroit automakers. If we were still following that dusty old parchment called the U.S. Constitution, the matter would have ended there, [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable Friends,
Whenever any religion seeks to turn dogma into law, society should be wary. Inevitably, when dogma becomes law, liberty, reason, and true scientific inquiry all suffer. It is not hard to find examples. Just look at the disasters which befell the Catholic Church with Copernicus and Galileo. [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable Friends:
In prior posts, I have made my disdain for the economic bailouts abundantly clear. Thus, I have not been at all surprised that the bailouts have failed so miserably to solve the financial crisis over these past several weeks of extreme volatility. What has surprised me a bit is the [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable Friends:
In its waning days, the Bush administration has at last given us something to celebrate. And no, I am not simply referring to its imminent departure. Today, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Lyle Laverty, announced new regulations recognizing an individual’s right to [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable Friends,
This Thanksgiving, I had the pleasure of running into quite a few old friends I had not heard from in many years. Several complained to me that my email is too difficult to obtain because I was not on Facebook. It seems they did not even think to run a [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.

Honorable Friends:

We are now past the election, but I cannot stop thinking of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland and the Dodo’s jolly caucus race. Do you recall the scene? The Dodo perches atop a pillar of rock on a beach, presiding over a crowd of critters running endlessly around his pillar in [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable friends,
This year, as I handed out candy to trick-or-treaters for Samhain/Halloween, I received a terrible cold in exchange. I spent the last few days sniffling and moaning in bed. At some point, I recall watching a somewhat blurry talking head announce that Barack Obama had just won the [...]

* * * This insightful essay comes from a U.S. officer serving in Iraq. I quite enjoyed it, and hope you all will as well. Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A. * * *
By CPT. Hunter Hawke
The upcoming election is extremely important to everyone, but perhaps especially to members of the military. Thus, as a member of [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable Friends,
A guest at tea informed me that she enjoys our visits because they are among the few chances she gets to discuss politics openly. It seems that she refrains from any mention of politics at work, and even at dinner parties if she is not close to the guests. This [...]