There are a couple of important points worth adding to the story of Tanya Rosenblit, the Israeli woman who refused demands from ultra-Orthodox male passengers to move to the back of the bus. The first is that having a legal apparatus to protect civil rights...
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Michael Conathan has an interesting albeit somewhat overoptimistic look at the state of fisheries in 2011. Conathan notes a variety of pretty good news ranging from the implementation of catch.
Cardinal Francis George of Chicago makes a very serious argument in defense of traditional Catholic doctrine on marriage: CARDINAL GEORGE: Well, I go with the pastor. I mean, he’s telling.
Palestinian and Knesset member Ahmad Tibi takes Republicans to task for using increasing inflamed rhetoric against his people. He takes on Eric Cantor in an interesting way: A man living in a glass home ought not to throw such stones. Cantor's remarks ignored the fact...
It seems the belief that lemmings periodically commit mass suicide as an instinctual response to overpopulation is, in the strict sense, a myth. Lemmings reproduce so quickly that they are.
To build on Rob's post below, Quiggin's argument is extremely lazy. It's one thing to blame Calhoun for contributing to the Civil War, but Clay and Webster? Rob took care.
...which is only appropriate, being that that's how we roll. (And for the record, expect much more from Yours Truly in the New Year, now that I'm not teaching seven thousand sections of composition.) Point being, I hope you and yours have a good one,...
What happens when a QB playing like Colt McCoy and Josh Freeman and Dan Orlovsky (well, not quite as well as the immortal Orlovsky) despite an unrealistically low turnover rate.
Providing an object lesson in why voting for Tea Partiers is a really terrible idea, the city council of Troy, MI decided to out-Christie Christie by turning down federal money.
Recently I've seen bits and pieces of several episodes of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and Kourtney and Kim Take New York. (I can only watch about ten minute stretches of these shows before beginning to experience some impairment of higher cognitive function; I suspect...
Always a terrible idea. That, no coincidentally, always hit the women who can least afford it the hardest.
Say hello to PolitiFact! The best part of the Politifact Grand Poohbah's inadvertently perfect parody of high Broderism is that it contains no defense of his credibility-destroying choice on the.