Not the Onion: As the House of Representatives gears up for Tuesday’s debate on HR 1797, a bill that would outlaw virtually all abortions 20 weeks post fertilization, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) argued in favor of banning abortions even earlier in pregnancy because, he said, male...
This piece features more juicy tidbits on the 501(c)(3) racket known as New York University, but its real target is the Educational Administrative Complex more generally. It features a link.
A friend of mine is bothered by the absence of a standard English punctuation mark that captures something in the emotional spectrum between the matter of fact period and what.
An Arizona vote suppression law goes down 7-2. Scalia's majority opinion was predictably grudging, but I'll take it. I also note the disingenuousness of Alito's sudden discovery of the principle that there should be a strong presumption against pre-emption: It should be noted, however, that the...
In 2000, the Supreme Court held (in an opinion by Stevens, joned by Scalia) that the Sixth Amendment requires that sentencing be based only on factors that have been proven.
Shorter reasonable, moderate, thinking person's conservative Sam Alito: "The Fifth Amendment does not entail a right to remain silent."
An outstanding collection of old Dutch work safety posters. Of course I liked the timber mill one from 1940 best.
The state of Louisiana (and the voters themselves) have cut off funding for the last operating ferry in New Orleans. Big deal, right? Who takes the ferry anymore? The answer.
On June 16, 1918, the socialist leader and former head of the American Railway Union Eugene Debs gave a speech in Canton, Ohio, criticizing the United States' actions in World.
After yet another pitcher, this time Alex Cobb of Tampa Bay, goes down from a liner to the head, it's hardly unreasonable to say that pitchers need to wear helmets on the mound. I suppose a full face guard is ideal, but even a batting helmet...
The West fertilizer plant disaster has faded from the headlines but that doesn't mean our national workplace inspection system has improved at all. On Thursday, a petrochemical plant exploded in.
While one would expect the majority of warrant requests made by authorities to be accepted by the magistrate, the rejection rate of the FISA court is so insanely low that.