Why did Lars Vilks, a mild-mannered Swede who calls himself “the artist,” booby-trap his art with electrified barbed wire, keep an ax by his bedside, and build a panic room upstairs?(Read more...)
John Locke's three branches of government were the legislative, executive, and diplomatic. He perceived the courts as derived from the community as a protection against government. Our Constitution makes the courts an actual branch of government, a mechanism of checks and balances, and divisions of power. We accept ...(Read more...)
Dr. John Lott on Barack Obama Posted by William Dwyer on 3/10, 2:15pm
Economist John Lott is the author of The Bias Against Guns, More Guns, Less Crime, and Freedomnomics. He has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford University, UCLA, Wharton Business School and Rice University. He was also the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Co...(Read more...)
From the article: "Obama contended that insurers have calculated that they'll make more money by denying coverage to some and jacking up rates on others." (Edit: Associated Press changed the content at the above link. The quote is from an earlier version.) Do a thought experiment. Suppose the government mandated...(Read more...)
Participants were more likely to be jealous of a rival's superior purchase if the item in question was a possession rather than an experience. Since materials are more easily compared with other things than experiences, materials bring more concern and less happiness than experiences, say Cornell researchers.(Read more...)
It is a class D felony (up to seven years in prison) if the prostitute is under 19 years old -- as the ACORN employees knew Giles was -- and a class C felony (up to 15 years) if the prostitute is under 16 -- as Giles stated the El Salvadoran girls were. (And if she's under 15 years old, Eliot Spitzer may be involved.)...(Read more...)
I wasn't sure whether or not to post this to the Joke Section of the Forum. Sometimes truth is funnier than fiction. In a letter addressed to parents and community members, a South Los Angeles elementary school principal apologized Thursday for “questionable decisions” about which prominent African Americans to highl...(Read more...)
