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That’s becoming quaint, as government races toward omniscience. Virtually everything is knowable, but only in retrospect. Behind the twin shields of state secrets and national security, government power is compounding itself.

We should be glad we’re not carrying the mantle of marijuana to the rest of the nation. If we want to continue being the state that dreams up big ideas, it’s best if the image conjured isn’t a dorm room with a bong.

Only a newcomer in Washington could believe that legislators are called “lawmakers” for a reason. Not surprisingly, recent news accounts have characterized Merkley and other reformers as “a cohort of short-sighted Senate sophomores.”