Yesterday the FAA published it's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("ANPRM") titled New Pilot Certification Requirements for Air Carrier Operations which I discussed in my February 4, 2010 post. According to the ANPRM, "[t]he purpose of this notice is to gather information on whether current el ...

Lately, the media has focused on how many of this nation’s Supreme Courts are committing judicial activism. However, the recent decision by the Illinois Supreme Court is evidence that the Illinois Supreme Court can make “non-activist” decisions. They did so by rightfully declaring that the 2005 ca ...

February 8, 2010 A new study published in the February 2010 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, has linked the consumption of two or more sodas a week to an increased rate of pancreatic cancer. ''People who drank tw ...

Well, first of all, even if you like the Colts and Peyton Manning (I do), you still have to be happy for the Saints and the City of New Orleans. What a great American story. Back to business though, the Troubled Asset Relief Program Inspector General (TARP IG), Neil Barofsky, announced in his ...

February 4, 2010 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced two separate recalls of children’s jewelry products on Tuesday due to dangerous lead content. Children are extremely susceptible to lead poisoning because they have a habit of placing hands and objects in the mouth ...

I apologized to Ben Nelson and even, kind of, to Joe Lieberman, for earlier referring them (in a post that I then deleted) as "thugs." But I do think that the word is appropriate for Richard Shelby, who, as Jack (and the Washington Post) described below, is holding up the Senate in order to gain wh ...

Once they understand what "tort reform" tries to do to victims of medical malpractice, most fair-minded people agree it's just not fair to put artificial legislative limits on the amount of money a patient can recover in a lawsuit. Such limits hurt the most devastated victims: People with spinal co ...

Via C-Net: FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited Police want backdoor to Web users' private data Police survey provides glimpse of Net-surveillance figures What's this all about? A NTIA/Commerce Department meeting yesterday for the Online Safety and Technology ...

The left is using every opportunity to fight the filibuster.  As I have argued at Red State and Big Government numerous times, the filibuster is essential for democracy.  Don’t be fooled, the left will use any excuse to message against the right of the minority to debate nominations and offer ...

Senator Richard Shelby a Republican Senator from Alabama, has secretly put a hold on all executive branch nominations by the Obama Administration. He wants earmarks for some pet projects in his home state. The hold is secret no more, since Shelby's identity has been leaked to the press, and Shelby ...