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And if so, do you have pictures to share? I dressed as a hobo; had an unfortunately damaged top hat which was perfect for such a costume. Managed a proper bindle too, with a red neckerchief with white polka dots. Sat on my front steps and handed out candy to trick-or-treaters. “What are you dressed […]
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There’s a question haunting campaign pros in the 2014 election. Both sides are worried about it, and neither side can answer it quite yet.
Less income inequality is self-recommending, according to the left. Full stop. Reducing the income gap as much as possible — while still, of course, leaving some incentive for wealth creation — should be a top priority of government. Maybe the top priority. As President Obama said late last year: “The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American dream, our way of life and what we stand for around the globe.”
Does anybody else live in a city that “decides” when kids will go trick-or-treating…and it’s not on Halloween? We moved to Huntington, West Virginia seven years ago and this was the first place I’d ever even heard of such a thing. It rubs me the wrong way, because this is a cultural practice that’s evolved, independent of government, over many hundreds of years. It strikes me as a gross overstepping of authority for a city to assign a date on which the custom will be carried out by individual citizens, especially when that date isn’t when the culture says it should be. It’s almost as if the city decreed that people will open their Christmas presents on December 23rd.