Yesterday’s Pictures of the Day at the WSJ were particularly fine, including a US soldier in Afghanistan who didn’t have time to put on his uniform and gets caught by the camera taking up a defensive position in pink I [heart] NY boxers and flip flops.
With all this iPhone nonsense buzzing around the world today, you may have missed a huge decision. In Quanta v. LG Electronics, the Supreme Court ruled that a company can’t enforce patents down the supply chain, when a customer purchases a full licensed product from one of the patent holders licensees. LG wanted to collect [...]
“This is the biggest thing I’ve experienced at Staples Center since it opened,’ said Tim Leiweke, president of AEG, owner and operator of the arena. ‘We’ve had the Grammys, concerts, championship fights, figure skating and the Pac 10 tournament along with the five teams that play here, but I’ve never seen anything like this… . [...]
Forget the fact that there is rising demand all over the world and exporters are shipping less. Let’s just blame the “failed” Bush energy plan and come up with silly ideas like a “gas tax holiday”.
It’s been fascinating seeing this Hilbama spectacle continue. My most sincere wish is that Hilary Clinton becomes the democratic nominee by the power vested in the “Super”-Delegates, essentially stealing the nomination from a black-Obama, who has more delegates and popular vote, and thereby alienating every black person in this country which essentially destroys the entire [...]
The New York Times has an awesome chart breaking down inflation and all its little components. “Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers 84,000 prices in about 200 categories — like gasoline, bananas, dresses and garbage collection — to form the Consumer Price Index, one measure of inflation. It’s among the statistics that the [...]
After hearing the State of the Union speech last night, I was curious to see historical trends in respect to style and difficulty. I created a database of all the historical State of the Union speeches since George Washington’s in 1790 till George Bush’s in 2006 and did some analysis. This stuff isn’t terribly useful, [...]
The idea is that you pledge an amount of money for each anti-abortion protestor that shows up outside of the PP health center. “We will place a sign outside the health center that tracks pledges and makes protesters fully aware that their actions are benefiting PPSP”. That is absolutely brilliant. (read more)
Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by a federal judge who granted legal standing to two families represented by an atheist who lost his previous battle before the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton ruled that the pledge’s reference to one nation “under God” violates school children’s [...]
Every Election Day people voice a seemingly patriotic idea that our greatest right as Americans is our “right to vote”. If voting is truly our greatest right one must consider the implication. Our other rights—freedom of speech, freedom of property, and even our freedom to exist as rational human beings—are dependent on the whims of [...]
As the 2004 presidential election nears, Americans have and will continue to hear Kerry and his supporters demand that we “narrow the gap” between the incomes of the rich and the poor. However in reality gap isn’t the “injustice” liberals claim it to be. The lefts view starts from the false assumption that economic inequality [...]
Last year, there were bills introduced calling for the reinstatement of the military draft. Today there are rumors citing that after the elections, the draft will most likely be reinstated regardless of what political party wins. I consider the term “draft” a far more cheery word for the truth: military draft is government confiscation of [...]