Zombie Politics

The recent report that students leaving high school today aren't doing much better than they did in the 1970s seems like bad news at f...

I read this article on Slate that mentions a study that found that fraternal birth order influences the likelihood of being gay : In men,...

I got chided the other day on Facebook for saying that I loved my wife's big, round butt. Some w...

The government contractor that did background checks for security clearances of people like Edward Snowden didn't actually do them half...

My initial take on the Supreme Court decision yesterday to nullify sections 4 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act is not quite as outraged as my ...

Conservatives like to sing about how wealthy our middle class is compared to the rest of the world. After all, look at how everyone has flat...

Well, the IRS "scandal" turned out to be phony. It was apparently what I thought it was: some IRS agents taking shortcuts to det...

From the South China Morning Post : Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance Fugitive whistle-blow...

The next chapter in Joseph Stiglitz's The Price of Inequality is titled "Justice For All? How Inequality Is Eroding The Rule Of Law...

Politico has a story up about how Vice President Joe Biden is saying that there are five senators who now want to change their vote on Manc...

Spend some time talking to Christian conservatives and they'll tell you the same thing all the time. They are oppressed and their rights...

The best weapon to stop them Moose-lems? A radiation death beam. The FBI has arrested two local men for allegedly plotting to use a radia...

Apparently, the gun community  has a difficult time keeping track of the their guns. The nation’s gun dealers lost 190,342 firearms last yea...

S&P Upgrades U.S. Credit Outlook to ‘Stable’ Now S&P projects U.S. general government deficit plus non-deficit borrowing requireme...