We have a very generous welfare state in this country. Amanda Marcotte: After three decades of stasis, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is getting an overhaul, with a special emphasis on making it easier for parents to buy fresh produce...
Shorter Verbatim Erick Erickson: In December of 1865, the several American states ratified the 13th amendment, constitutionally ending involuntary servitude in the United States. In the 21st century, Americans are.
Rod Dreher, in one of his increasingly frequent loud sighs about his side's impending loss on same sex marriage, flags an interesting and revealing finding from the recent PRRI poll:.
Stuff on Ukraine... Ukraine makes clear its case that Russia has invaded Crimea Russia more or less agrees. Josh Tucker suggests that everyone should calm down. Ukraine politely requests the return of President Yanukovych. Peter Apps on Russian military reforms since 2008. Ukrainian Sukhois are pretty....
"There are three forms of evidence against Cameron Todd Willingham -- 1. Junk science. 2. Baseless conjecture. 3. Uh, uh, uh...get me another Tito's and Ambien!" The case of Cameron.
In a world where we are all going to be armed, Boise State biology professor Greg Hampikian asks a key question in the face of an Idaho bill to allow.
Helicopters APCs: Around 400 people are in the airport of Belbek now. They have occupied runway and all plane movements have been stopped,” the news agency quoted the source as saying. At the same time, AP journalists in Crimea have spotted a convoy of nine Russian...
The group of people who would see this nothing-to-see-here reassurance on Bitcoin convincing would surely constitute the most valuable set of contacts for con artists since the Glengarry leads.
Last week I moderated an episode of The Good Fight, a new Bloggingheads venture. The discussion, between Cato's Justin Logan and Thinkprogress' Zack Beauchamp, revolved around how we assess the.
Ichininosan has compiled a list of the law schools that have slashed their admissions standards most drastically over the past four years, as measured by average LSAT. I'm reproducing his work here, and adding 2004 data for comparison purposes (Note that good LSAT scores are far...
In case you weren't paying attention... Amid fears of a Kremlin-backed separatist rebellion here against Ukraine’s fledgling government, armed men in military uniforms took up positions at two Crimean airports.
Been too busy to really post today, but I can at least say this. You should be listening to Wussy. Also: