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Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 24, 2013 36 Comments
While news of a myriad of sex scandals in major American cities offers summer distractions, a few other items caught my eye: With the US Postal service bleeding money after the explosion of social media, the agency is looking to end at-your-door mail delivery: The...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on July 24, 2013 4 Comments
Yesterday, McClatchy reported on Pelosi’s newest divisive endeavor: an economic agenda for women.  After all, we all know that women are not part of the economic fabric of this nation, that we all secretly aspire to be government-dependent Julias whose “health care” needs are those...

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 23, 2013 76 Comments
Much has been made lately of the self-defense legal doctrine of Stand-Your-Ground, mostly for political purposes unrelated to any actual legal application of the doctrine (for more on this, see here: Stand-Your-Ground: Gun Control Zombies Exploit Grieving Black Community). Stand Your Ground Does Not Make it...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on July 21, 2013 35 Comments
Detroit’s recent bankruptcy filing, the largest of any municipality in U.S. history, has drawn a lot of attention to the sustainability problem that has long been facing many state and local governments. While the bankruptcy has been attributed to a number of factors, the majority...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 21, 2013 5 Comments
The Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers that supports the Assad regime, claims it has hacked the database server of messaging and social networking service, Tango. https://twitter.com/Official_SEA12/status/358355124751568896 The group posted the following message to its website Friday: The Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Tango...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 20, 2013 16 Comments
By its very name, you know that any lawsuit sponsored by Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) will do three things: Target some successful, American corporate entity. Be based on anything other than science. Go counter to any interest that I, as an...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 17, 2013 21 Comments
In my last report on San Diego mayor Bob Filner, I noted that he brought Washington, D.C.’s sense of teamwork and fair play with him. At that time, Filner crashed  a press conference held by City Attorney Jan Goldsmith responding to the mayor’s call for...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 16, 2013 17 Comments
Ever since California TV station KTVU erroneously aired the fake names of four pilots falsely purported to be those of Asiana Flight 214, the story has gone viral and left many wondering how the station could have possibly missed that the names were fake. Some...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 15, 2013 54 Comments
A California TV station and NTSB intern are facing more fallout today, after an embarrassing mistake led a KTVU anchor to read on-air the (obviously) fake pilot names of Asiana Flight 214.  That plane crash landed on a San Francisco runway on July 6th, killing...

Posted by David Gerstman on July 05, 2013 26 Comments
As Mandy Nagy previously noted here, the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as ObamaCare, will now be delayed until 2015. The decision to delay Obamacare's employer mandate could cost the U.S. billions: http://t.co/bzOYrJAYj3 — MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) July 4, 2013 News of...
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