October 13, 2014 – 2:58 pm
An interesting proposition at the New Republic This August, Columbia University released a new policy for handling “gender-based†misconduct among students. Since April, universities around the country have been rewriting their guidelines after a White House task force urged them to do more to fight sexual assault. I was curious to know what a lawyer […]
October 13, 2014 – 6:56 am
Priorities (UK Daily Mail) While officials in Dallas scrambled to calm public hysteria over news of the first Ebola transmission on U.S. soil, Barack Obama hit the links for his 200th golf game as president. The president embarked on his leisurely outing to Virginia after taking a a few moments to speak with Health and Human […]
October 7, 2014 – 8:19 am
It’s no wonder when the Editorial Board is comprised heavily of White People and Men Stopping Ebola in America The widening Ebola epidemic in West Africa — combined with the fears generated by an Ebola patient who carried the virus to Dallas — have led to calls for the United States to screen travelers when […]
October 4, 2014 – 6:39 am
Liberals should be very careful in opening this door, because it could easily be applied to gun permits (Buzzfeed) Missouri must recognize the marriages of same-sex couples that were granted elsewhere, state Judge Dale Youngs ruled on Friday. “[T]o the extent these laws prohibit plaintiffs’ legally contracted marriages from other states from being recognized here, […]
September 20, 2014 – 6:50 am
On Friday, Obama, the White House, and Democrats launched their #ItsOnUS anti-sexual assault program, calling on citizens to Do Something (and acting like there are no laws about this on the books) (White House) Today at the White House, President Obama joined Vice President Biden and Americans across the country to launch the “It’s On […]
September 6, 2014 – 6:17 am
At this point, even liberals have to admit that this stinks like a 5 day old fish (Fox News) The IRS said Friday that it has lost emails from five other employees involved in congressional probes into the agency’s targeting of conservative groups, leading one top Republican to declare “this pattern must stop.” The announcement […]
September 4, 2014 – 11:59 am
I took a little jaunt to McDonald’s this morning for a Big Breakfast, alas, no strikers at the joint near me. Nor at the Wendy’s, Bojangles, or Burger King in the same areas. But (WRAL) Fast-food workers in parts of the Triangle walked off their jobs Thursday morning as part of the latest national protest […]
September 4, 2014 – 8:20 am
Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for an investigation into the IRS scandal, among others (Washington Post) Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. this week will launch a broad civil rights investigation into the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department, according to two federal law enforcement officials. The investigation, which could be announced as early as Thursday afternoon, will […]
September 2, 2014 – 7:07 am
You’ve heard about this, right? (Buzzfeed) A leak that started as the latest round of personal pictures hacked from celebrities’ phones turned Monday into a vast invasion of the privacy of actress Jennifer Lawrence and a handful of others — and a kind of festival on Reddit, 4chan, and other online spaces — with continued […]
August 25, 2014 – 2:10 pm
In a long story about Michael Brown’s trials and tribulations, which include things like fights, drug and alcohol use, vulgar and violent rap lyrics, while attempting to paint a picture of just a typical good boy, we get Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with […]
