Counterintuitive news of the day: when fathers pay child support payments ostensibly to their poverty-stricken ex-partners and children, they're only helping deepen the women's poverty.How? Well, in many states the child support payments made to women on welfare go directly to the state and federal coffers...
Finally, the N.H.L. has altered their awful schedule, under which teams visit those in other conferences only once every three years. Since I was in Calgary for 12 days last.
Longtime friend of L, G & M Julia is starting a regular guest posting gig at Firedoglake. And even better, her first post is about Giuliani and his history of.
Robert Craig Knievel, Jr.1938-2007A lot of folks have asked me over the last couple of years why I named that other site after Evel Knievel. I don't have an especially good answer, except to say that the name made for a good pun and was, for...
I see that Rudy Giuliani -- who Ann Althouse assured us in the august pages of the New York Times was a deeply principled federalist -- has come out in.
Watergate co-conspirator and gibbering loon G. Gordon Liddy turns 77 today. As a child during the Great Depression, Liddy quivered with glee at the sound of Adolf Hitler’s voice on.
Although I agree that the biggest beneficiary of the Huckabee surge is Rudy Giuliani, it now can't be considered entirely impossible that Huckabee will get the nomination. Given this, it seems worth pointing out that his national sales tax scheme is completely insane. Beaudrot is especially...
Thers asks: "what does it mean that The Matrix, the first one, is a watchable movie, when the dialogue is so astoundingly stupid?" Well, it means that a movie can.
Walter Pincus, via Defense Tech:The State Department, departing from traditional public diplomacy techniques, has what it calls a three-person, "digital outreach team" posting entries in Arabic on "influential" Arabic blogs.
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Conservapedia has the scorecard. Give yourself a point for each entry that sounds familiar. Take a celebratory drink for those in bold. Give yourself two points if you have no.
A program in Brooklyn that provides substance abuse counseling, job training, and other supports to people re-entering society after incarceration seems to be working and reducing recidivism rates. No big.