Month: March 2013

An interesting set of observations from Charlie Cook: After Republicans won only 48 percent of all votes cast for the House in 2012 but 54 percent of the seats, it’s no secret that the party enjoys the huge built-in structural...

After decades of Silence, the Vatican now speaks out in denial of any complicity by the Catholic Church and Bergoglio in remaining silent durin dictator Videla’s Dirty War on Argentinian people. New pope’s role...

Duncan and I used to talk about this phenomenon back when we made it a habit to meet with friends for drinks every Tuesday night. It’s the tendency of conservatives (including Darth Cheney) to drop their opposition to...

Judges who wish to assure that a jury has no outside influence will sequester them. Legally, a sequestered jury is seized by authority and isolated from all outside influences. The jurors are escorted into and out of the...

The video is vaguely disturbing. Okay, maybe it’s just flat-out disturbing. But the musical arrangement is awesome. It’s like the Thompson Twins, the Tom Tom Club, Madness, and Elvis Costello & the Attractions...