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Why isn’t Puerto Rico the 51st State yet?
Or why aren’t California and Texas sovereign republics?
Happy Jamaica Independence Day!
Jamaica is one of prior probability‘s favorite countries in the world (aside: p.p.’s wife is Jamaican and we spent our last summer in St Ann Parish and plan to return next summer), and today, 6 August, the Island celebrates her … Continue reading
Will Puerto Rico become the 51st State?
Yesterday, the Committee on Energy & Natural Resources of the U.S. Senate held yet another committee meeting to hear testimony on the political status of Puerto Rico. (I say “yet another committee meeting” because Puerto Rico has been a de facto and … Continue reading
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