Month: December 2011
To add a bit to Scott’s post citing Randy Balko, see this Eli Lake article on the effort defense firms are making to break into the domestic police market: Brad Antle, the president and CEO of S
For years, Crooked Timber and Bitch PhD were two of the only blogs I pretty much never missed, so I’m obviously pretty thrilled about this development. Congrats to Tedra and the CT crew on an ou
Balko is terrific on the militarization of local police forces.
I’m alternately pleased that he was finally selected and outraged he was denied the honor for which he was obviously overqualified while he was alive. As for who the next sabermetric cause c
On this day in 1955, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged into the AFL-CIO. During the 1930s, dissatisfaction over the AFL’s conservatism and its
Irin Carmon’s overview is extremely useful. The real threat under the current Supreme Court configuration isn’t so much the “personhood amendments” that clearly contravene Case
To the modern winger, apparently it’s a Horatio Alger story.
I think Cameron is right. The injuries are a concern, but otherwise Reyes is a good free agent gamble — relatively young free agent with young players’ skills at a scarce position. G