The Congressional Science Committee is at present basically the legislative arm of the Chevron octopus: For Chevron, the second-largest oil company in the country with $26.2 billion in annual profits, it helps to have friends in high places. With little fanfare, one of Chevron’s top lobbyists,...
The oil industry has agreed to voluntary standards to improve safety on oil trains after a spate of recent accidents. Of course it's voluntary which means that it's unenforceable. So.
Head, meet desk: Several construction labor unions have decided to lend their support to the Keystone XL. Though critics charge that the pipeline will lead to a drastic increase in.
This post is the Infilaw law schools. Infllaw is a subsidiary of the good folks at Sterling Partners. Infilaw currently owns three ABA-accredited law schools, Arizona Summit (formerly Phoenix), Charlotte, and Florida Coastal, and is trying to acquire Charleston. These schools are for-profit operations, and a...
From Daniel Little: Robin Blackburn has assembled a fascinating book drawing out some surprising connections between Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx, An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. Since both.
It isn't dead horse blogging (and don't worry yourselves, I still have a good number of dead horses to show you), but this essay on the forgotten history of cows.
A good deal of legitimate criticism of Caitlin Flanagan's work has appeared on this blog, but I must say that I very much enjoyed this article on fraternity life and litigation strategy: So recently and robustly brought back to life, the fraternities now faced the most...
The UAW has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board over the interference of Tennessee politicians in the union election, claiming intimidation and asking that the results be.
Rough loss for the U.S., but there's reason for consolation: America has almost as many goals against Canada as Latvia and Norway did.— mc79hockey (@mc79hockey) February 21, 2014 Seriously, even.
Building on the model of professional sports, where immensely profitable owners squeeze the wages, reduce the benefits, and undermine the pensions of everyday workers because they can, the Pac-12, flush with cash from the Pac-12 Networks, refuses to provide health insurance or retirement benefits for its...
Once again, figure skating is a terrible sport.
Frenemies battle round 2 today; should be at least as much fun. How did the last meeting come out? I'm having trouble remembering... There are two bad ways of handicapping.