Month: June 2011

I’m not a lawyer but this is ridiculous: Mr. Edwards’s decision to mount what his lawyer called “a vigorous defense” sets the stage for a future trial, with the already protracted case — Mr. Edwards first publicly...

What do you know about Paul Revere’s midnight ride? If you are like me, you only have a vague understanding of the history that is overly colored by Henry Wadswoth Longfellow’s poem Paul Revere’s Ride. But...

As you probably know, I wrote more than a dozen pieces advising the president not to involve U.S. troops in Libya’s civil war. What you probably don’t know is that I am in favor of a strict interpretation of the War...

Okay, they named a newly discovered worm ‘Halicephalobus mephisto’? That is too cool. And why shouldn’t the Lord of the Underworld come in worm-form? Are worms not the symbol of death? What am I talking about,...

Left wing politics has often paid lip service to a growing marginalized group, but the failure to engage the formerly incarcerated is not just a political failure – it is a moral one. Cross posted from Pruning Shears.By...