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Some years ago, former Senator and one-time Harvard professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan remarked, "It isn't what you don't know that hurts you. It's what you know that isn't so." In that spirit, readers: here is a short quiz. Please don't worry. The quiz is short. You won't be graded. And you may be surprised. Question 1: The federal government is spending a larger share of national income than at any time since World War II - true or false? Question 2: The federal government is collecting a larger share of national income in taxes than at any time since World...

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What is the originalists view of the federal judiciary? What is the "progressive" view? Which do you find most persuasive and why? Which is likely to dominate the Supreme Court in the future? What do you see as the relationship between federalism and anti-federalism and progressivism and constructionism?

A TEACHER pleasured himself in front of pupils during exams, a court heard yesterday. Shay Kernaghan, 27, put chairs either side of his desk to hide what he was doing, but one sixth-former said: “It was obvious. He went pink and started shaking his hand.” Business studies teacher Kernaghan, who has since left the London school for Muslims, denies eight charges. Case continues at Southwark Crown Court.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." That bit of American folk wisdom evidently was not part of the cultural patrimony of Kristja Falvo, a mother in Oklahoma. When her little boy Philip came home from sixth grade and said the other kids made fun of him, she was so eager to soothe his feelings that she made a federal case out of it. Literally. I bet when Philip was first toddling around, and bumped into a table, she spanked the table and scolded it too. "Did the table hit you? Bad table!"...