I'm perhaps a bit less sanguine than Andrew Smith about the issues underlying Vulcan's offer to Seattle described here: The Seattle City Council has quietly shelved a proposal that would let Vulcan, Paul Allen’s real-estate firm, build a trio of 24-story towers near Lake Union if...
So I found this Doug Fine piece on keeping cannabis production out of corporate hands a little frustrating. Fine's basic argument is that with the increased likelihood of legalized marijuana.
Yglesisas notes that fast-food stocks took a beating today after Obama came out in favor of higher minimum wage indexed to inflation. Doesn't this present a substantial opportunity for those.
Danger Room has convened a symposium re-evaluating Imperial strategy and military performance at the Battle of Hoth. My own contribution was simply a translation (with the assistance of former Patterson School student Patrick Davey) of the evaluation of Captain Giage Gentis, professor of military history at...
Well, this is an issue: An MRI on Kentucky Wildcats forward Nerlens Noel revealed he tore the ACL in his left knee and will miss the remainder of the season..
He voted against the VAWA. And, needless to say, his pretext for voting against it is a really terrible reason in its own right. It also seems worth noting that.
I didn't watch the speech last night. Being in Britain, I was busy sleeping. Indeed, I barely made it through all of Celtic v Juventus, regretfully. Buried towards the end of the speech, at about 51 minutes in, is the initiative to address voting barriers: In...
On February 13, 1865, the Sons of Vulcan, the first American union in iron and steel, ended its strike, leading to the first union contract in American history. The Sons.
My latest at the Diplomat expresses skepticism that the North Korean nuclear test is something to get all that excited about: The first and most important lesson is that North.
The single conviction from the ludicrous prosecution of Barry Bonds will finally be facing the scrutiny of an appellate court. And while I wouldn't say I have a great deal of faith in the American legal system, in this case I'm pretty confident that the total...
The most interesting piece of agenda-setting in the SOTU: The most important proposal in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address may be one that gets the least attention.
Not sure how many of you are on Twitter, but the progressive Twittersphere exploded in hilarity when Marco Rubio took a drink of water during his response to the State.