Month: December 2009

. Iraq oil development rights contracts awarded Shell and Petronas beat a rival bid from France’s Total and China’s CNPC. Although Majnoon is a huge oil field, with reserves of 13 billion barrels of oil, it currently...

I spent the day putting the nursery together for the soon-to-be-arriving BooBoy. I’m exhausted. Now I need recipes for stuff I can make and throw in the freezer. Oh, and curtains… What else should a first-time father...

Is there a legitimate use for habeneros or are they just obnoxiously hot?

This week’s Immigration Blog Roundup will cover national policy, new research, state news, and more. While the U.S. and Cuba intend to continue holding periodic negotiations on immigration issues twice a year, their talks...

Ezra Klein hits on something that I’ve been thinking about. The first year of the Obama presidency has been a long tutorial on the difference between liberal ends and liberal means. If I told you America has a president...