It was a good day for journos when President Obama declared he was in favor of transparency in government, and issued the memo instructing bureaucrats to, when in doubt, go ahead and release the data. Not only that, says the prez, citizens shouldn’t have to wait around and file Freedom of Information requests when the [...]

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Saw this post the other day on Strange Maps, a great site for the cartographically inclined. The map is dated prior to Dec. 1861, when part of what is now West Virginia (where I was born and raised) seceded from Virginia to join the Union. It shows proposed borders that are pretty different from the [...]

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