Month: March 2018

A single spark can start a prairie fire, as the old saying goes. A successful strike by teachers in West Virginia a few weeks ago appears to have inspired Oklahoma’s long-beleaguered educators. Vox has the skinny on the...

Suspected cybercrime mastermind behind US$1.2 billion bank hacks is arrested in Spain The person suspected of being behind malware attacks known as “Carbanak” and “Cobalt” was arrested in Alicante, a port...

Apparently, the Secret Service has been studying the profiles of people who carry out mass casualty shootings and they’ve discovered that most of these people showed signs of mental illness prior to going on their...

(I originally wrote the following as a reply to a comment from Jonf on Booman’s recent post “Why are Trump’s Polls So Stable?” It grew, so here it is as a standalone.)...

There’s no better place to look to see how freaked out the Republicans are than the state of Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker enjoys majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. The GOP holds 18 of 33 state Senate...