…or perpetrators of violent crime, as well as substantial decreases in teenage childbearing, cigarette smoking, and binge drinking.” (In discussing the crime rate, the report says it was down dramatically…

…I mainly find interesting is what all this interest in technology and jobless growth says about the limits of contemporary liberalism. We can all hope that Gavin Mueller’s reverie of…

…suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war, and long oppressions of enormous public debt. … If the game runs sometimes against us at home, we must…

…from China. Big NPR whoop! To put this in perspective, for CY 2012, the Federal Government, via the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, is contributing $26.65 million in support of PBS,…

…values—America’s values— include wanting Americans to deliberately offend the world’s Muslims. Romney apparently believes that it’s fine to risk American lives overseas (including, presumably, members of our military) by appearing…

From reader rjs comes this list of links in paragraph form on records being passed over time on Arctic sea ice and Greenland glaciers melting. New radar allows for a…

…EDUCATION ASSC. LIBERAL (3 million members) $5.3 MILLION 5. SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LIBERAL (2.1 million members) $3.7 MILLION 6. PETER THIEL, LIBERTARIAN $3.9 MILLION 7. FRED EYCHANER, LIBERAL $3.7…

…unmotivated leadership (ex in the safe realm of insider trading cases) and long-term budget starvation leading to serious skills atrophy, or whether the SEC really, truly, is so deeply intellectually…

Peter J. Henning, a colleague of Linda Beale, poses the question in the NYT: Is That It for Financial Crisis Cases? Last week turned out to be a good one…

…the US began cracking down on Swiss bank account holders who had avoided their reporting responsibilities, this latter issue has gained considerable visibility. It turns out that many Americans had…