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If this is the

by Josh Marshall
03.03.05 | 10:40 am

If this is the law, then the law is an ass.

I’d like hear some more voices about the issues involved in this potential regulation and whether what FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith predicts is likely to come about. But if it’s as he says, it really would mean the end of what this site and so many others on the right and left do.

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