Inspirational email of the day from the HURIDOCS list-serv: The True Heroes ‘International Conference on Human Rights and the New Media’ was meticulously planned for 6 months, to be held on 19-20 April in The Hague. Then the ash cloud came and flights to the...
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Something I've always loved about the way soccer football is organized virtually everywhere not called North America is promotion and relegation. For the uninitiated, league "systems" are set up in.
Short answer: unlikely. I've been contemplating an approach to the sudden rise of the Liberal Democrats while busy trying to consider helping finish this paper I'm scheduled to present in.
This Charlie Savage article about the politics of Obama's Supreme Court nominations starts off by reminding us that attempting to preempt conservative claims that a Supreme Court nominee is a radical "judicial activist" is a waste of time, since anybody to the left of Sam...
The myth requires revision, but stolen library book is a fitting replacement for cut down cherry tree: Librarians in New York's oldest library have uncovered a surprising book thief: George.
Apparently, when it's the public release of the papers of a Nixon appointee to the Supreme Court. To wit: For example, while Judge Garland has not often dealt with social.
You can't get a much better example of whining being central to one's political identity than John Nolte's alleged decade-long boycott of TV because of the possibility that someone might make a mild joke about an unpopular politician on his party's side. I suppose this...
Citizens for Tax Justice has a breakdown of the effective tax rate paid by various income groups, taking all federal and state taxes into account. Some highlights: (1) Outside the.
Three things: 1. Yes, the download times and the load errors are extremely troubling and deeply irritating. Be assured that we're as bothered as you (more so, even!) and that.
One might think that the contest for the worst crime against aesthetics to have been committed in the name of of the teabaggers has been definitively ended by Victoria Jackson (clearer audio here for any masochists out there.) And yet, I'm not sure -- while...
With the Imperial Grand Poobah-Elect of the Liberal Elites Who Discuss Literatchoor Association having already weighed in, it makes me feel embarrassed that my more modest responsibilities have delayed by.
This Arthur Brooks WSJ article illustrates most of the classic tropes of Republican anti-tax rhetoric: (1) Talk only about federal income taxes, which -- subject to a few marginal exceptions.