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In Newport Beach, surfing instructor Jason Murchison is being treated like “this Jesse-James-style criminal,” as he puts it. The city has been in a legal dispute with Jason — a 41-year-old former Navy ...

Former President Herbert Hoover argued that governments have the instincts of a vegetable — that is, “they keep spreading and growing.” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) echoed Hoover when she stated that ...