The Faculty Lounge

Hillary Clinton has begun her 2012 Senate campaign!  According to this report from the ever-shrinking LA Times, Clinton is hustling to avoid having to return money to individuals who already…

With relatively little fanfare (though a story in today's NYT), Massachusetts is quickly moving to repeal its 1913 anti-miscegenation defense law - a statute that made it difficult for interracial…

Here's an update on a dispute I've followed for a while.  As I noted previously, we're in the midst of a knock-down fight between Boeing (represented substantially by the lefty…

Yesterday I stopped by a local Wendy's for lunch.  In an effort to reduce the caloric implications of this catastrophic visit, and to save a few sheckels, I opted entirely…

I was reading through the Philadelphia Bar Reporter today and discovered that one of Pennsylvania's new Supreme Court Justices - Seamus McCaffery - is pushing to create a statewide veterans…

Doug Berman thinks that the Supreme Court's new gun control decision could wreak havoc for The Man.  In a post yesterday, Doug argues that the Supreme Court's landmark decision in…

A couple of years ago, Cass Sunstein joined the ongoing debates about the death penalty and deterrence.  In his piece Is Capital Punishment Morally Required: The Relevance of Life-Life Tradeoffs,…

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision striking down death for those charged with raping children (in the Kennedy v. Louisiana case) is here.  Corey Yung has an early post here.  SCOTUS…

The Dubai Metro placed a full page ad in a recent Business Week announcing naming opportunities for both individual stations and complete subway lines.  What corporation wouldn't benefit from having…

I've previously blogged about how Alabama was a big winner when the Air Force passed over Boeing, awarding its tanker contracts to an Airbus - Northrop Grumman consortium.  Now it…