Earlier this year, the Cato Institute published this paper, which describes the self-flagellating nature of the U.S. antidumping law.

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The Kauffman Foundation blew the whistle hardest of them all with its May 2012 self-flagellating report, now required reading in VC-land.

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Drawing from sources as disparate as Black Sabbath, the indie-instrumentalists in Tortoise and the self-flagellating noise-masters in Swans, Pelican makes instrumental hard rock that whispers as much as it shouts, and teases as much as it pummels.

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