Month: August 2015

Over at Think Progress, Aviva Shen takes a deep look at how police departments report the crime rate. As should be obvious, in the normal course of things, the incentives are all skewed toward underreporting crime so that the...

Someone once said (sourcing is disputed) “The universe is not only stranger than you think, it’s stranger than you can think”. For me, news of a $30M Illegal Cheesemaking Ring makes it to the “stranger...

How Demonizing Iran Deal Supporters Brings Out Worst in Israel | The Forward |   by J.J. Goldberg TEL AVIV – Israeli police beefed up security last week for the American ambassador, Dan Shapiro, after he received a...

Imagine, if you will, that the U.S. Congress, led by Republicans John Boehner in the House and Mitch McConnell in the Senate, passed and sent 65 bills to President Obama that the president opposed. Many if not most of these...

If you were ever drunk or dumb enough to investigate opportunities for sex outside your marriage on the internet, you have my limited sympathy. The chances are not that bad that everyone you know, including your spouse, will...