This Week in the Laboratories of Democracy

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Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's going down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done and where a soldier sits beneath the fan, doing business with a tiny man who sells him a ring.

We begin in Chicago. Hey, we're the federal government , and we're here to help. From the Chicago Sun-Times:

Dan Jones was jolted awake around 1 a.m. Tuesday to the sound of federal agents trying to break through his apartment door. They couldn’t get past his double lock, so he went back to bed. But when he woke up hours later for work, he walked out and found broken doors littering the hallway—and his neighbors missing. Jones, 27, is among the residents left at

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