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FIRST HE HATED JESUS, NOW HE HATES IOWA: Christopher Hitchens notes that the “Iowa Caucus” is not democracy at all, but some long-winded social event at which a few thousand Iowans are bribed with sandwiches. [Slate]

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Gas giant ConocoPhillips is conducting an experiment in corporate civil disobedience. In its Oklahoma home office, it’s expressly flouting a state law forbidding employers from banning concealed weapons in the workplace. The National Rifle Association has retaliated in short order with a call to members to boycott Conoco gas stations and a series of billboards proclaiming “ConocoPhillips is no friend to the Second Amendment.” MORE »