In fact, no maybe about it. They are. It’s scary to think, but there it is, in the Wall Street Journal: Google and Apple are gathering location information as part of their race to build massive databases capable of pinpointing people’s locations via their cellphones. These databases could help them tap the $2.9 billion market […]
IT’S ABOUT TIME: U.S. News Encourages Law Schools To ‘Fess Up on Employment Rates – Law Blog – WSJ
March 11, 2011 by
The rest of the legal world, and the legions of recent law grads that are unemployed and underemployed, already know this: law schools lie. Not directly, mind you. They just fudge the numbers. Now, finally, U.S. News, the leading source for the all important law school rankings, will “encourage” law schools to come clean on the real […]
The Human Cost of Ignoring Medicaid Reform
February 9, 2011 by
One of the critiques that my left leaning friends often level at the political right is that Republicans are cold and heartless. Republicans are the champions of big business and soulless capitalists, they say. They don’t care about the poor, the elderly, or the weak of society. It may be a valid critique, if a […]
Why two parties? Why not more?
October 15, 2010 by
Image via Wikipedia Too many parties leads to extremism, says James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal. Two is actually the optimum number of parties. A viable and durable third party would make it far easier to be elected with only minority support; more parties than that would raise the specter of small extremist parties […]
The Pentagon Papers of the Afghan War? Or more smoke than fire?
July 26, 2010 by
Image via Wikipedia Check it at the New York Times here, the Wall Street Journal here, Boing Boing here, and especially here, at Wikileaks. It may be the “largest intelligence leak in history”. Here are a few books that you might want to read: Taliban, by Ahmed Rashid, Ghost Wars by Steve Coll, Unholy Wars […]
You know what they say…
May 12, 2010 by
The talk about the town is Elena Kagan. Is she qualified? Where does she stand on the issues? Will the GOP try to Bork her? Does she reflect the President’s vision? and so on. Here’s a sampling of a few of the blogs and articles out there about the Supreme Court nominee: Over at Slate, […]
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